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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dip·per /ˈdɪpɚ/
 使浸漬者,現影液容器,汲取的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dip·per n.
 1. One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
 2. Zool. (a) A small grebe; the dabchick. (b) The buffel duck. (c) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe. (d) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
 The Dipper 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: WordNet (r) 2.0

 dipper
      n 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 [syn: Little Dipper]
      3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa
         Major [syn: Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain,
          Wagon]
      4: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head
         plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela
         albeola]
      5: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents
         fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water
         ouzel]