Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dipper

5 senses of dipper

Sense 1
dipper -- (a ladle that has a cup with a long handle)
       => ladle -- (a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another)

Sense 2
Little Dipper, Dipper -- (a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris)
       INSTANCE OF=> asterism -- ((astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation))

Sense 3
Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon -- (a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major)
       INSTANCE OF=> asterism -- ((astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation))

Sense 4
bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola -- (small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage)
       => duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Sense 5
water ouzel, dipper -- (small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom)
       => oscine, oscine bird -- (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)