dippern.

Brit.

/ˈdɪpə/, U.S.

/ˈdɪpər/

Etymology: < dip v. + -er suffix¹.

1. One who dips, in various senses; spec.

a. One who immerses something in a fluid; chiefly in technical uses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > [noun] > one who or that which

dipper1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trempeur, a dipper, wetter, moistener.

1762 S. Derrick Lett. (1767) II. 51 There are women always ready to present you with a cup of water who call themselves Dippers.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 473 By the side of this tub stands the dipper, and a boy, his assistant.

1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 4 The action of the Dipper shows the ordinary process in glazing useful wares.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. ii. 28 There was in the room [at Epsom Wells] a dipper, as they call the women who hand the water to those who go to drink it.

1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. Tallow Chandlers.—Wanted immediately, a first-class Dipper.

b. One who ‘dips’ snuff: see dip v. 5.

ΚΠ

1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy 75 (Cent. Dict.) The fair dipper holds in her lap a bottle containing the most pungent Scotch snuff, and in her mouth a short stick of soft wood, the end of which is chewed into a sort of brush.

c. One who ‘dips’ into a book, etc.: see dip v. 14.

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society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > skimmer or browser

skimmer1751

dipper1824

skipper1824

browser1863

skip-reader1973

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 326 I became also a lounger in the Bodleian library, and a great dipper into books.

1889 Temple Bar Dec. 553 The dippers are those readers who are only by an euphemism called readers.

d. Thieves' slang. A pickpocket. (Farmer 1891.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket

fig-boyc1555

foister1585

foist1591

pickpocket1591

bung1600

diver1608

pocket-picker1622

pocketeerc1626

bung-nipper1659

file1673

filer1674

shark1707

hoister1708

knuckle1781

knuckler1801

buzzgloak1819

cly-faker1819

fingersmith1819

knuck1819

fogle hunter1821

buzzman1832

nobbler1839

wire1851

gonoph1853

wirer1857

dip1859

moll-tooler1859

buzzer1862

hook1863

snotter1864

tool1865

pocket-cutter1885

dipper1889

pogue-hunter1896

pick1902

finger1925

whizz1925

whizzer1925

prat diggera1931

whizz-boy1931

whizz-man1932

reefer1935

1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang

1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago xi. 111 Such dippers—such pickpockets—as could dress well.

a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) ii. 34 [The wallet] could have been pinched..and ditched there... Dippers often do that.

2. One who uses immersion in baptism; esp. an Anabaptist or Baptist: spec. one of a sect of American Baptists, called also Dunkers.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > [noun] > person

Anabaptist1531

rebaptizer?1535

Catabaptist1561

dipper1617

Dopper1631

rebaptist1641

Wederdoper1647

baptist1654

waterman1657

rebaptisant1728

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. v. 200 To be dippers and baptisers.

1645 D. Featley Καταβάπτισται Κατάπτυστοι: Dippers Dipt (title page) The Dippers dipt, or the Anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over head and eares, at a disputation in Southwark.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 615/1 Fie, man, to turn dipper at your years, after your many tracts in favour of sprinkling only.

1887 C. W. Sutton in Dict. National Biogr. XI. 5/2 He became a dipper or anabaptist (immersed 6 Nov. 1644).

3. A name given to various birds which dip or dive in water: (a) the Water Ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus; also other species of the genus, as, in North America, C. Mexicanus; (b) (locally in England) the Kingfisher; (c) = dabchick n. 1, didapper n. 1 (perhaps obsolete); (d) (in U.S.) a species of duck, Bucephala albeola, the buffle.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > podiceps ruficollis (dabchick)

dive-dapa1000

doppe13..

dumping1393

dippera1425

didapperc1440

dopperc1440

ducker?a1500

dabchickc1520

dive-dapper1559

arsefoot1598

loon1678

penny bird1823

helldiver1839

Tom Pudding1848

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper)

dippera1425

water ouzel1622

waterthrush1668

water crake1676

water blackbird1678

piet1804

water crow1804

water-piet1804

water cock1806

ducker1837

dipper-bird1894

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xiv. 17 A dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous..alle in her kynde.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xi. 17 An owle, and dippere [1382 deuedep, deuedoppe.].

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 340 The Didapper, or Dipper, or Dobchick, or small Doucker.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 446 The dobchick..we call it by several names expressive of its diving; the didapper, the dipper, etc.

1833 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. i. 20 The only bird which attracted notice was the dipper (Cinclus aquaticus).

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 170 A brood of twelve black dippers, half grown, came paddling by.

1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Dipper, the King-fisher.

1882 A. Hepburn in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 504 Of the Thrush family, the Dipper or Watercrow frequented all the streams.

4. A genus of gastropod molluscs, Bulla.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Bullidae or genus Bulla

dipping-shell1712

dipper1776

dipping-snail1776

1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 174 The sixth family is the nuces, seu bullæ; commonly called the pewits eggs, or dipping snails, but which I shall henceforward call dippers, or seanuts.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 276 The dippers (Bulla) which are furnished with a singular organ or gizzard that proves their predaceous or carnivorous habits.

a. A utensil for dipping up water, etc.: spec. a ladle consisting of a bowl with a long handle. (Chiefly U.S.)

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel for scooping liquid > [noun]

ladlea1000

spoocher1294

scoopc1330

lade-bowl1420

laving-bowl1457

bail1466

jet1501

lade-pail1558

lade-gallonc1575

lade-mele1579

spudgel1775

dipper1783

baler1875

bailer1883

tabo1900

1783 E. Parkman Diary 298 Tin tunnel,..two tin dippers.

1801 G. Mason Suppl. to Johnson's Dict. Dipper, a spoon made in a certain form. Being a modern invention, it is not often mentioned in books.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dipper..2 A vessel used to dip water or other liquor; a ladle.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xxii. 289 Water brought in birchen dippers.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dipper, an utensil for taking up fluids in a brewery.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 155 The little tin dipper was scratched all over.

1885 G. Allen Babylon I. xi. 226 Each of whom brought his own dipper, plate, knife, fork.

1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka iv. 42 It's like trying to scoop up the ocean with a dipper.

b. The popular name in the United States for the configuration of seven bright stars in Ursa Major (called in Britain ‘the Plough’, or ‘Charles's Wain’). Little Dipper n. the similar configuration of seven stars in Ursa Minor.

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the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major

Ursac888

Arcturusc1374

beara1398

Ursa Major1398

ploughc1425

Septentrionc1425

seven starsc1425

Great Bear1555

plough star1558

Helice1596

polar bear1648

dipper1842

Big Dipper1856

1842 Lowell (Mass.) Offering II. 234, 236 You all know the Dipper? Yes, it is in the Great Bear. The Little Dipper is in Ursa Minor.

1858 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 5 Oct. in Writings (1906) XI. iv. 199 Its [sc. the comet's] tail is at least as long as the whole of the Great Dipper.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 111 The constellation of the Dipper..pointing to the North Star.

1890 C. A. Young Uranogr. §5 The familiar Dipper is sloping downward in the north-west.

c. In full dipper dredge. A type of dredging boat or machine (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 465/1 The dipper dredge consists of a barge, with a derrick-crane reaching over the stern, suspending a large wrought-iron bucket which brings up the dredged material.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 55/1 The channel has also been assisted somewhat in its development, by an Osgood dipper dredge.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 259/2 Dipper, a form of dredging machine which has a large ladle on the end of a spar.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 634/2 Such a crude form of dipper dredge is still to be found in China.

6. Photography. An apparatus for immersing negatives in a chemical solution: see quots.

ΚΠ

1859 Photogr. News 186 Dipper, the piece of glass or other substance on which the iodised plate is laid, in order to be dipped into the nitrate of silver bath.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. 79 The dipper, employed for carrying the plate into the solution during the operation of sensitising, may be conveniently made of pure silver wire.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 65 In this bath must be a dipper for the purpose of raising and lowering the plate during the sensitising process.

a. A receptacle for oil, varnish, etc., fastened to a palette.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > palette > receptacle for oil or varnish

dipper1859

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 199 The Dipper is made so that it can be attached to the palette. It serves to contain oil, varnish, or other vehicle used.

1883 Spectator 3 Nov. 1413 It blew the medium out of its dipper, and spread it in a shower upon the middle of the picture.

b. = dip n.¹ 8a.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > place

wash-dyke1765

wash-pool1827

sheep-dip1865

dip1871

soak-hole1881

dipper1891

1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xvi. 247 The dipper..consists of a narrow well or trough of masonry.

1956 J. Gibbons et al. in D. L. Linton Sheffield 258 Installation of electricity, sheep pens and dippers.

c. As the name of various mechanical devices or instruments; big dipper, see Big Dipper n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > switch that operates headlight

dimmer switch1914

dipper1925

dipper switch1935

dip-switch1952

1925 Morris Owner's Man. 28 In the bottom case are fitted the troughs for feeding oil to the connecting-rod big ends through the oil dippers which are fitted to same.

1928 Daily Express 28 Sept. 9 It should be made compulsory for all motorists to have dippers affixed to their headlights.

1951 N. Balchin Way through Wood iii. 46 I suppose he was driving dipped and it was one of those dippers that switches off the offside light.

1963 Times 13 Mar. 10/6 It has transistorised ignition, a.c. electrical generator, automatic headlight dipper, [etc.].

Compounds

dipper-bird n. (see sense 3(a)).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper)

dippera1425

water ouzel1622

waterthrush1668

water crake1676

water blackbird1678

piet1804

water crow1804

water-piet1804

water cock1806

ducker1837

dipper-bird1894

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxx. 260 A man stole off up the waterside, jumping across it in running skips like a dipper bird.

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dipper-clam n. U.S. a bivalve mollusc, Mactra solidissima, common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

dipper-gourd n. U.S. a gourd used as a dipper (sense 5).

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1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 199 A bucket of spring-water, with a dipper-gourd in it.

dipper switch n. = dip-switch n. at dip n.¹ Compounds 1.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > switch that operates headlight

dimmer switch1914

dipper1925

dipper switch1935

dip-switch1952

1935 Times 1 Oct. 8/4 The equipment includes such fittings as self-cancelling traffic indicators..and a foot-operated dipper switch.

1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving ii. 20 A dipper switch..enables you to dip the beam.

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单词	dipper
释义	dippern. Brit. /ˈdɪpə/, U.S. /ˈdɪpər/ Etymology: < dip v. + -er suffix¹. 1. One who dips, in various senses; spec. a. One who immerses something in a fluid; chiefly in technical uses. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > [noun] > one who or that which dipper1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trempeur, a dipper, wetter, moistener. 1762 S. Derrick Lett. (1767) II. 51 There are women always ready to present you with a cup of water who call themselves Dippers. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 473 By the side of this tub stands the dipper, and a boy, his assistant. 1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 4 The action of the Dipper shows the ordinary process in glazing useful wares. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. ii. 28 There was in the room [at Epsom Wells] a dipper, as they call the women who hand the water to those who go to drink it. 1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. Tallow Chandlers.—Wanted immediately, a first-class Dipper. b. One who ‘dips’ snuff: see dip v. 5. ΚΠ 1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy 75 (Cent. Dict.) The fair dipper holds in her lap a bottle containing the most pungent Scotch snuff, and in her mouth a short stick of soft wood, the end of which is chewed into a sort of brush. c. One who ‘dips’ into a book, etc.: see dip v. 14. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > skimmer or browser skimmer1751 dipper1824 skipper1824 browser1863 skip-reader1973 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 326 I became also a lounger in the Bodleian library, and a great dipper into books. 1889 Temple Bar Dec. 553 The dippers are those readers who are only by an euphemism called readers. d. Thieves' slang. A pickpocket. (Farmer 1891.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket fig-boyc1555 foister1585 foist1591 pickpocket1591 bung1600 diver1608 pocket-picker1622 pocketeerc1626 bung-nipper1659 file1673 filer1674 shark1707 hoister1708 knuckle1781 knuckler1801 buzzgloak1819 cly-faker1819 fingersmith1819 knuck1819 fogle hunter1821 buzzman1832 nobbler1839 wire1851 gonoph1853 wirer1857 dip1859 moll-tooler1859 buzzer1862 hook1863 snotter1864 tool1865 pocket-cutter1885 dipper1889 pogue-hunter1896 pick1902 finger1925 whizz1925 whizzer1925 prat diggera1931 whizz-boy1931 whizz-man1932 reefer1935 1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago xi. 111 Such dippers—such pickpockets—as could dress well. a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) ii. 34 [The wallet] could have been pinched..and ditched there... Dippers often do that. 2. One who uses immersion in baptism; esp. an Anabaptist or Baptist: spec. one of a sect of American Baptists, called also Dunkers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > [noun] > person Anabaptist1531 rebaptizer?1535 Catabaptist1561 dipper1617 Dopper1631 rebaptist1641 Wederdoper1647 baptist1654 waterman1657 rebaptisant1728 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. v. 200 To be dippers and baptisers. 1645 D. Featley Καταβάπτισται Κατάπτυστοι: Dippers Dipt (title page) The Dippers dipt, or the Anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over head and eares, at a disputation in Southwark. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 615/1 Fie, man, to turn dipper at your years, after your many tracts in favour of sprinkling only. 1887 C. W. Sutton in Dict. National Biogr. XI. 5/2 He became a dipper or anabaptist (immersed 6 Nov. 1644). 3. A name given to various birds which dip or dive in water: (a) the Water Ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus; also other species of the genus, as, in North America, C. Mexicanus; (b) (locally in England) the Kingfisher; (c) = dabchick n. 1, didapper n. 1 (perhaps obsolete); (d) (in U.S.) a species of duck, Bucephala albeola, the buffle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > podiceps ruficollis (dabchick) dive-dapa1000 doppe13.. dumping1393 dippera1425 didapperc1440 dopperc1440 ducker?a1500 dabchickc1520 dive-dapper1559 arsefoot1598 loon1678 penny bird1823 helldiver1839 Tom Pudding1848 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper) dippera1425 water ouzel1622 waterthrush1668 water crake1676 water blackbird1678 piet1804 water crow1804 water-piet1804 water cock1806 ducker1837 dipper-bird1894 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xiv. 17 A dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous..alle in her kynde. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xi. 17 An owle, and dippere [1382 deuedep, deuedoppe.]. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 340 The Didapper, or Dipper, or Dobchick, or small Doucker. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 446 The dobchick..we call it by several names expressive of its diving; the didapper, the dipper, etc. 1833 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. i. 20 The only bird which attracted notice was the dipper (Cinclus aquaticus). a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 170 A brood of twelve black dippers, half grown, came paddling by. 1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Dipper, the King-fisher. 1882 A. Hepburn in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 504 Of the Thrush family, the Dipper or Watercrow frequented all the streams. 4. A genus of gastropod molluscs, Bulla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Bullidae or genus Bulla dipping-shell1712 dipper1776 dipping-snail1776 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 174 The sixth family is the nuces, seu bullæ; commonly called the pewits eggs, or dipping snails, but which I shall henceforward call dippers, or seanuts. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 276 The dippers (Bulla) which are furnished with a singular organ or gizzard that proves their predaceous or carnivorous habits. 5. a. A utensil for dipping up water, etc.: spec. a ladle consisting of a bowl with a long handle. (Chiefly U.S.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel for scooping liquid > [noun] ladlea1000 spoocher1294 scoopc1330 lade-bowl1420 laving-bowl1457 bail1466 jet1501 lade-pail1558 lade-gallonc1575 lade-mele1579 spudgel1775 dipper1783 baler1875 bailer1883 tabo1900 1783 E. Parkman Diary 298 Tin tunnel,..two tin dippers. 1801 G. Mason Suppl. to Johnson's Dict. Dipper, a spoon made in a certain form. Being a modern invention, it is not often mentioned in books. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dipper..2 A vessel used to dip water or other liquor; a ladle. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xxii. 289 Water brought in birchen dippers. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dipper, an utensil for taking up fluids in a brewery. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 155 The little tin dipper was scratched all over. 1885 G. Allen Babylon I. xi. 226 Each of whom brought his own dipper, plate, knife, fork. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka iv. 42 It's like trying to scoop up the ocean with a dipper. b. The popular name in the United States for the configuration of seven bright stars in Ursa Major (called in Britain ‘the Plough’, or ‘Charles's Wain’). Little Dipper n. the similar configuration of seven stars in Ursa Minor. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major Ursac888 Arcturusc1374 beara1398 Ursa Major1398 ploughc1425 Septentrionc1425 seven starsc1425 Great Bear1555 plough star1558 Helice1596 polar bear1648 dipper1842 Big Dipper1856 1842 Lowell (Mass.) Offering II. 234, 236 You all know the Dipper? Yes, it is in the Great Bear. The Little Dipper is in Ursa Minor. 1858 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 5 Oct. in Writings (1906) XI. iv. 199 Its [sc. the comet's] tail is at least as long as the whole of the Great Dipper. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 111 The constellation of the Dipper..pointing to the North Star. 1890 C. A. Young Uranogr. §5 The familiar Dipper is sloping downward in the north-west. c. In full dipper dredge. A type of dredging boat or machine (see quots.). ΚΠ 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 465/1 The dipper dredge consists of a barge, with a derrick-crane reaching over the stern, suspending a large wrought-iron bucket which brings up the dredged material. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 55/1 The channel has also been assisted somewhat in its development, by an Osgood dipper dredge. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 259/2 Dipper, a form of dredging machine which has a large ladle on the end of a spar. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 634/2 Such a crude form of dipper dredge is still to be found in China. 6. Photography. An apparatus for immersing negatives in a chemical solution: see quots. ΚΠ 1859 Photogr. News 186 Dipper, the piece of glass or other substance on which the iodised plate is laid, in order to be dipped into the nitrate of silver bath. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. 79 The dipper, employed for carrying the plate into the solution during the operation of sensitising, may be conveniently made of pure silver wire. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 65 In this bath must be a dipper for the purpose of raising and lowering the plate during the sensitising process. 7. a. A receptacle for oil, varnish, etc., fastened to a palette. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > palette > receptacle for oil or varnish dipper1859 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 199 The Dipper is made so that it can be attached to the palette. It serves to contain oil, varnish, or other vehicle used. 1883 Spectator 3 Nov. 1413 It blew the medium out of its dipper, and spread it in a shower upon the middle of the picture. b. = dip n.¹ 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > place wash-dyke1765 wash-pool1827 sheep-dip1865 dip1871 soak-hole1881 dipper1891 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xvi. 247 The dipper..consists of a narrow well or trough of masonry. 1956 J. Gibbons et al. in D. L. Linton Sheffield 258 Installation of electricity, sheep pens and dippers. c. As the name of various mechanical devices or instruments; big dipper, see Big Dipper n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > switch that operates headlight dimmer switch1914 dipper1925 dipper switch1935 dip-switch1952 1925 Morris Owner's Man. 28 In the bottom case are fitted the troughs for feeding oil to the connecting-rod big ends through the oil dippers which are fitted to same. 1928 Daily Express 28 Sept. 9 It should be made compulsory for all motorists to have dippers affixed to their headlights. 1951 N. Balchin Way through Wood iii. 46 I suppose he was driving dipped and it was one of those dippers that switches off the offside light. 1963 Times 13 Mar. 10/6 It has transistorised ignition, a.c. electrical generator, automatic headlight dipper, [etc.]. Compounds dipper-bird n. (see sense 3(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper) dippera1425 water ouzel1622 waterthrush1668 water crake1676 water blackbird1678 piet1804 water crow1804 water-piet1804 water cock1806 ducker1837 dipper-bird1894 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxx. 260 A man stole off up the waterside, jumping across it in running skips like a dipper bird. Categories » dipper-clam n. U.S. a bivalve mollusc, Mactra solidissima, common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. dipper-gourd n. U.S. a gourd used as a dipper (sense 5). ΚΠ 1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 199 A bucket of spring-water, with a dipper-gourd in it. dipper switch n. = dip-switch n. at dip n.¹ Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > switch that operates headlight dimmer switch1914 dipper1925 dipper switch1935 dip-switch1952 1935 Times 1 Oct. 8/4 The equipment includes such fittings as self-cancelling traffic indicators..and a foot-operated dipper switch. 1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving ii. 20 A dipper switch..enables you to dip the beam. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1425
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