dipper

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that dips, especially a container for taking up water.
• noun One of several small birds of the genus Cinclus that dive into swift-moving streams and feed along the bottom.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who or that which dips. Specifically
• noun [capitalized] [Cf. dopper.] Same as Dunker.
• noun In paper manufacturing, the workman who mixes the pulp and puts it upon the mold.
• noun One who dips snuff. See to dip snuff, under dip, v. t.
• noun A bird of the genus Cinclus or family Cinclidœ: so called because it dips, ducks, or dives under water.
• noun Any swimming bird which dives with great ease and rapidity, as a grebe, dab-chick, or didapper; especially, in the United States, the buffle, Bucephala albeola, which is also called spirit-duck for the same reason. See cut under buffle.
• noun A vessel of wood, iron, or tin, with a handle usually long and straight, used to dip water or other liquid.
• noun [capitalized] The popular name in the United States of the seven principal stars in Ursa Major, or the Great Bear: so called from their being arranged in the form of the vessel called a dipper. The corresponding stars in Ursa Minor are called the Little Dipper. See cuts under Ursa.
• noun In photography, a holder or lifter for plunging plates into a sensitizing or fixing bath; especially, such a holder used in the wet-plate process for plunging the collodionized plate into the sensitizing bath of nitrate of silver.
• noun A simple form of scoop-dredge. See dredging-machine.
• noun In ceramics, a workman who dips ware in the glazing or coloring preparation: See dipped.
• noun Any of the gastropod mollusks of the genus Bulla.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
• noun A small grebe; the dabchick.
• noun The buffel duck.
• noun The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
• noun The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
• noun (Astron.) the seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
• noun A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping out liquids.
• noun slang pickpocket

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
• noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
• noun small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
• noun a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
• noun small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom