dipper
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Or the dipper, a little bird Norwegians call “the Fossekall, the ‘Call of the waterfall,’” that once gave Mr. Macfarlane a change of mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Birds including the curlew, nightjar, dipper, lesser black-backed gull and red grouse are also named.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Some Native American tribes believe the cup of the dipper represents a bear and the stars in the handle represent warriors who pursue it.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 23, 2023
Dip: One of the best things about dip is that the dipper becomes the utensil, so you get to eat with your hands.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
On one side hung two pairs of sandals; on the other, a small gourd water dipper and a bag to be filled with rice cakes.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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I've been speaking to our players recently, and there's a growing thing about footballers scoring trendy goals - whippers and dippers - but he didn't think about that.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
We ended our tour at Hallam Lake, admiring the fortitude of American dippers, bathing in a snow-banked stream.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Combine crunchy vegetables — think carrots, cucumbers and radishes — with leafy ones, such as cabbage or little gems, and a few seasonal dippers, such as cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022
Little dippers are also further away, making it hard, if not altogether impossible, for astronomers to capture a photograph to further investigate the dimming’s cause.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022
Worsley, Crean, Vincent, McCarthy, and McNeish frantically pumped and bailed with anything they could find—the cook pot, dippers, their hands—anything that would get the water out of the boat.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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