noun
- A ladle that has a cup with a long handle.
- A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris.
- synonyms: Little Dipper
- A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.
- synonyms: Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon
- Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage.
- synonyms: bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola
- Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom.
- synonyms: water ouzel
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