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Meaning of dipper

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dipper
      n 1: a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
      2: a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the
         dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: {Little Dipper}, {Dipper}]
      3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
         [syn: {Big Dipper}, {Dipper}, {Plough}, {Charles's Wain},
         {Wain}, {Wagon}]
      4: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head
         plumage [syn: {bufflehead}, {butterball}, {dipper},
         {Bucephela albeola}]
      5: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-
         flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: {water
         ouzel}, {dipper}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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