n. One who or that which dips. Specificallyn. [capitalized] [Cf. dopper.] Same as Dunker.n. In paper manufacturing, the workman who mixes the pulp and puts it upon the mold.n. One who dips snuff. See to dip snuff, under dip, v. t.n. A bird of the genus Cinclus or family Cinclidœ: so called because it dips, ducks, or dives under water.n. n. Any swimming bird which dives with great ease and rapidity, as a grebe, dab-chick, or didapper; especially, in the United States, the buffle, Bucephala albeola, which is also called spirit-duck for the same reason. See cut under buffle.n. A vessel of wood, iron, or tin, with a handle usually long and straight, used to dip water or other liquid.n. [capitalized] The popular name in the United States of the seven principal stars in Ursa Major, or the Great Bear: so called from their being arranged in the form of the vessel called a dipper. The corresponding stars in Ursa Minor are called the Little Dipper. See cuts under Ursa.n. In photography, a holder or lifter for plunging plates into a sensitizing or fixing bath; especially, such a holder used in the wet-plate process for plunging the collodionized plate into the sensitizing bath of nitrate of silver.n. A simple form of scoop-dredge. See dredging-machine.n. In ceramics, a workman who dips ware in the glazing or coloring preparation: See dipped.n. Any of the gastropod mollusks of the genus Bulla.