Other forms: dippers
A dipper is a long-handled scoop, or a small diving bird. A dipper on the stone.
The bird walks under water on the bed of a fast stream, which almost nothing else does. The scoop sense survives mostly in the name of a constellation.
1noundipperA long-handled scoop, or a small diving bird.
“A dipper bobbed on the same rock every morning.”
dipper is a bird.
Dip plus -er, from the action of dipping.
Middle English
dippere
English, today
dipper
From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA