Shallow iron dippers with long handles and small foot-rests come into use in Bagdad and in Mesopotamia for roasting coffee.
The Dippers (Cinclidae) are essentially an Arctic group diffused all over the Palaearctic and the Arctic Regions.
Now, the Bible is just full of gourd dippers from one end to the other,--and for this I am pleased.
How many cool and refreshing draughts of water I have taken from gourd dippers I dare not say; but the memory is precious, and I should be delighted to repeat the experience now.
My whole force ofdippers is on to-night, and I must be spry.
This extensive prospect fell to a foreground of people, such as Mr. Waples had been mingling with, and these were clamoring and supplicating for water faster than a hundred dippers there could pass it up.
The dippers were of all garbs and periods, from Indians and rustics to boys in cadet uniform.
At his feet lay a large pack, two tin dippers and an ax.
The boys unfastened their dippersand drank deeply.
Just opposite the camp it opened out into a pool twenty feet long, and half as wide; and, as they stood here, they saw two little dippers at work in the stream.
The ancients also had dippers with extension handles to reach down to the bottom of the deep amphora.
Elaborate dippers (see our illustration) were used to draw the wine from the amphoræ.
These dippersare made by sawing an opening in the large part of the gourd, scraping out the contents, and making the inside as smooth as possible with sand-paper.
At the point where one catches the other, dippers made of iron or brass plates and holding half a congius[13] are bound to them with thongs; thus, if there are one hundred links there will be the same number of dippers pouring out water.
The wooden dipper holds ten Roman sextarii, and the cask holds eight dippers full[3].
When the shafts are inclined, the mouths of the dippersproject and are covered on the top that they may not spill out the water, but when the shafts are vertical the dippers do not require a cover.
The chain is rolled round the drum and the dippers fill with water; the chain being drawn up close to the hangingwall side, carries the dippers filled with water above the drum of the upper axle.
When there is but a small quantity, it is either brought up in buckets or drawn up by chains of dippers or suction pumps, and when there is much water it is either drawn up in hide bags or by rag and chain pumps.
Thus there are always three of the dippers inverted and pouring water into a lip, from which it flows away into the drain of the tunnel.
Horn dippers of the same general pattern as these are common throughout Alaska.
The cups anddippers of musk-ox horn found by Parry at Iglulik are somewhat different in shape.
Dippers of horn are in very general use for drinking water.
By cutting the body of the gourd longitudinally at one side of the axis, we have dippers with straight or curved necks or handles.
The sun was already sinking into the trees when they went with their jingling dippers into the wooded ravine of Mashkin Upland.
The mowers from all sides, brought closer together in the short row, kept urging one another on to the sound of jingling dippersand clanging scythes, and the hiss of the whetstones sharpening them, and good-humored shouts.
He was looking at her now from a distance, for she and Mite Shapley were assisting Jed Towle to pile up the tin plates and tie the tin dippers together.
Fragments identified as parts of bowls, vases, jars, and dippersare classed under this variety.
The handles of the dippers or ladles are single or double, solid or hollow, simply turned up at one end or terminating with the head of an animal.
Bowls and dippers with figures of tadpoles, birds, etc.
The handles of the dippers are generally attached at both ends, but sometimes the handle is free at the end near the body of the utensil and attached at the tip.
From the comparatively solid character of the bowls of these dippers they were rarely fractured, and were commonly found to contain smaller mortuary objects, such as paint, arrowheads, or polishing stones.
The rims of these dippers are never flaring, either inward or outward.
Among the fragments of dippers from Awatobi are several with perforations in the bottom, irregularly arranged or in geometric form, as that of a cross.
All that they got, except ten, they must put into their dippers, until the dippers were full.
She herself went busily at work, finding strawberries and putting them into the dippers of the children, sometimes into one and sometimes into another.
The whole party then went back to the brook and sat down upon the great flat stone, with their dippers before them.
Little Silver noticed a large bundle of these dippers ready.
If dippers with bottoms in them had been given them, the sailors said, the boat would have been sunk.
Dippers are exceedingly attached to certain reaches of the stream and to favourite nesting sites, using the latter year after year, often in spite of much disturbance.
We have often remarked that the Dippers were exceptionally busy in searching for food on these occasions, doubtless because insects and larvae were disturbed by the unusual flow of water.
Dippers in one form or another are found over the greater part of Europe, Asia, and North Africa; they occur on the upland streams of the Himalayas, and in the mountains of Formosa.
We retain many vivid remembrances of the actions of broods of Dippers that we have unexpectedly disturbed.
The two Dipperschase round it once every twenty-four hours, as you can convince yourself some night when you stay up late.
Ah, I forgot to tell you that thesedippers are not the real thing.
What would have been the use of life-preservers if the dippers were all on board?
A tight little bark is The Sieve, provided the dippers hold out.
Dippers must not rattle against bayonets, but all must be as still as the dead who slept near us.
Our orders were to give commands in whispers, have dippers so hung that they would not rattle against bayonets, and move forward.
The Dippers or Water Wrens have straight and slender bills; large and stout toes, furnished with strong hooked claws, and short wings and tails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
