dipper
/ˈdɪpɚ/ noun C2- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce. · chicken dippers
- Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
- A pickpocket.
- A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
Plural dippers
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
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