dipper

/dˈɪpɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

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

Synonyms for dipper

• Little Dipper
• Big Dipper
• Plough
• Charles's Wain
• Wain
• Wagon
• bufflehead
• butterball
• Bucephela albeola
• water ouzel

Words that rhyme with dipper

• clipper
• skipper
• stripper
• tripper
• flipper
• nipper
• shipper
• slipper
• tipper
• zipper
• chipper
• kipper
• ripper
• gipper
• hipper
• kippur
• knipper
• lipper
• schipper