dipping
/ˈdɪpɪŋ/ noun B1- An act or process of immersing.
- The act of inclining downward.
- The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
- The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
- The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
- The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
Plural dippings
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Dipping marten, plumping trout,
All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
“Stop a bit,” said the abbé, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation.
While Madame de Villefort remained rooted to the spot like a statue of terror, and Villefort, with his head hidden in the bedclothes, saw nothing around him, d’Avrigny approached the window, that he might the better examine the contents of the glass, and dipping the tip of his finger in, tasted it.
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