dipper n Cp DAE ~ 2 'utensil for dipping up water' for sense 1; see DIP v 4 for sense 2.
   1 A small saucepan, a variety of cooking-pot.
   T 80/2-64 We had peas duff and potatoes, you know, and the coady dipper was there with lassy into un.
   T 407/8-67 I took [the moose meat] and put it in the dipper and put it on the stove, and 'twas cooking on that stove until dinner time Monday. C 69-29 Get a small dipper and fill it up with molasses and put it on the stove. C 69-18 Cooking pots are referred to as dippers. 1976 GUY 131 By and by out comes this miserable little dribble [of water] which takes five minutes to top off a small dipper.
   2 Harp seal in its first year, when it takes to the water; BEATER (1972 SANGER 236).

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