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dippers   (TTS Sound)

The noun dippers has 1 sense

• Church of the Brethren, Dunkers, Dippers -- (a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion)

The noun dipper has 5 senses

• dipper -- (a ladle that has a cup with a long handle)


• Little Dipper, Dipper -- (a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris)


• Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon -- (a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major)


• bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola -- (small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage)


• water ouzel, dipper -- (small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom)