The girl returned it with a stare of brave defiance, but her hand trembled as she returned the dipper to its nail.
Kate handed the stranger the long-handled tin dipper and watched him gravely while he drank the water in gulps, draining it to the last drop.
So it is," agreed Uncle Henry, "although I must confess I never thought of the milk dipper when I made up that rhyme for you youngsters.
Illustration] When Peter finished putting down little pebbles the little dipper was very plain, just above the great bear's back.
Uncle Henry drew four little pictures showing the four positions in which the big dipperstands in the four different seasons, with its "pointer stars" always indicating the pole star.
The seven stars of the big dipper were all plainly visible when Uncle Henry came down the board walk and sat cross-legged on the sand.
You can make the dipper itself with seven pebbles, though.
So we will," laughed Uncle Henry, "the little dipper and the little bear are the same thing!
I looked for the bright tin dipper which always hung by the pump.
Mary Bell's fire-pan, was an old tin dipperwith a long handle.
Besides, Phonny left his dipper for Mary Erskine or Malleville to carry up, instead of taking care of it himself.
There was a tin dipper there upon the top of the post which the water-spout came out of, and Mary Bell and Bella had an excellent drink from it the first thing.
Mary Bell held the dipper at arm's length before her, and began to walk along.
This dipperwas very valuable, too, for another purpose.
The holes in the bottom of the dipper made it an excellent watering-pot, provided the garden to be watered was not too far from the brook: for the shower would always begin to fall the instant the dipper was lifted out of the water.
The dipper is of very thin copper tube--an advantage where alternating current is to be used--and is made adjustable for height on the suspending rod C.
To prevent undue churning of the mercury, which would necessarily take place if the dipper entered and left the mercury at each movement of the armature, a pointed ebonite plug is inserted in the end of the tube.
The local circuit of the relay is completed by means of a copper dipper in mercury, somewhat resembling an ordinary mercury break, but modified to suit the present requirements.
If he wants a dipper of iced-water, he calls out to the first plebe he sees in some such manner as this: "Oh!
I had to go a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards, fill the pail by drawing water from the faucet in a dipper (the faucet was too low to permit the pail to stand under it), and return to the guard tent in ten minutes.
Mr.--, don't you want to borrow my dipper for a little while?
Rube was up and moving about the camp at sunrise, and he had stirred up the smouldering fire and put a kettle and a dipper of water to boil before Kiddie crawled out of his sleeping bag.
He slipped as the boat swung over a wave, and the dipperflew from his hand, dropping into the larger of the two tubs.
The sheet tender, a Frisco dock rat, scooped a dipper overside, stumbled forward, and dashed sea water into the rapidly uncoiling hemp.
The Ice Pilot pointed along the leader stars of the Great Dipper and notched his fingernail on the lodestar.
Through it shone the light points of the high swinging dipper and the overhead lodestar.
Jeff," the old man said, "help me into my office and get me a dipper of drinkin' water.
For bailing these boats a long narrow dipper of ivory or bone is used, of such a shape as to be especially well suited for working in between the floor timbers.
An unusual form of dipper is beautifully made of fossil ivory.
He was about to take a drink of water from a dipper which he saw in the iglu, but was prevented by the other people, who told him that this belonged to the mother and that it was "bad" for anyone else to use it.
A stout peg of antler is driven through the handle, 1 inch from the tip, and projects behind, serving as a hook by which to hang the dipper on the edge of a bucket.
The fisherman holds in his left hand the dipper above mentioned, with which he keeps the hole clear of the ice crystals, which form very quickly, and in his right the reel which he jerks continually up and down.
When the men are sitting in their open air clubs at the summer camps there is always a bucket of fresh water in the middle of the circle, with a dipper to drink from.
This dipper is not of such fine quality of ivory as the other two.
Then the edge of the dipper becomes very irregular as the road winds in and out through a wooded country, until at Far Creek Sawmill it strikes off due north.
The rim of the dipper represents the roads making up the racing circuit.
It threaded the Southern Dipper and entered the Milky Way, where it became invisible.
The Dipper uses both legs and wings in search of prey, examining the pebbles, feeding on molluscs and the larvA| of insects.
Water Thrush is one of his names; but he is better known by the names, Dipper and Water Ouzel.
Skim carefully off with a spoon, or cream- dipper (specially prepared) holding one ounce.
Dipper found in the excavations at the Chassey camp.
The constellation known as the Great Dipper is near by, and the two stars that mark the corners of the dipper on the extremity farthest from the handle lie in a line that passes across the North star.
These two stars in the Great Dipper are called the pointers.
One of Alwa's men brought him a brass dipper full of water, after washing it out first thoroughly and ostentatiously.
Cunningham brought him water in a dipper, and the Rajput washed his horse's mouth out, then held out the dipper again to Cunningham for fresh charge for himself.
The dipper is of plate steel, and holds 1¾ cubic yards of earth when even full.
Owing to the great distance at which the dipper is handled, its size is reduced, and because it swings on the arc of so large a circle the capacity of this machine is only one-half of that of the No.
Manley looked into the zinc water pail, took it up, and started for an outer door, rattling the tin dipper as he went.
She took the tin dipper out of it, so that it would not rattle and betray her purpose to Manley, sitting just inside the door with his back toward her, and tiptoed quite guiltily out of the kitchen.
The Father took the dipperand poured water on their hands.
There was a long-handled wooden dipperfloating on it.
As she replaced the dipper Seesaw promptly raised his hand, and Miss Dearborn indicated a weary affirmative.
His dipper was a ten-pound lard can with a handle ingeniously attached, and as he dipped water from the river into the grizzly, the steady, mechanical motion of the rocker and dipper had the regularity of a machine.
He flung the dipper from him and started toward the cabin on a run.
Take the cover from the dipper of hot water and screw it on very tightly.
Have a kettle of hot water on the stove beside the preserving kettle, and also a small dipper of hot water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dipper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ladle; magpie; scoop
