Definition of Dippers

1. Noun. A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion.

Exact synonyms: Church Of The Brethren, Dunkers
Generic synonyms: Baptist Denomination
Member holonyms: Dunkard, Dunker, Tunker

Definition of Dippers

1. Noun. (plural of Dipper) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of dipper) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dippers

1. dipper [n] - See also: dipper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dippers

Diplazium pycnocarpon
Diplococcus pneumoniae
Diplogonoporus
Diplopterygium
Diplopterygium longissimum
Diplotaxis
Diplotaxis erucoides
Diplotaxis muralis
Diplotaxis tenuifolia
Dipodidae
Dipodomys ordi
Dipodomys phillipsii
Dipogon
Dipogon lignosus
Dipper
Dippers (current term)
Dipsacaceae
Dipsacus
Dipsacus fullonum
Dipsacus sativus
Dipsacus sylvestris
Dipsosaurus
Dipsosaurus dorsalis
Diptera
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipteronia
Dipteryx
Dipteryx odorata
Dipu
Dipus

Literary usage of Dippers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"The year preceding the controversy between Tombes and Marshall, Dr. Featly, who had been Rector of Lambeth, published ' The Dippers Dipt; or, ..."

2. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"... low types among the higher animals — Circumstances favourable to the origin of new species—Probable origin of the dippers—The importance of isolation—On ..."

3. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"memento for the seditious dippers ; it is the dernier resort of every slanderous declaimer against them ; it is the great gun, the ultima ratio of every ..."

4. The Riverside Readers by James Hixon Van Sickle, Wilhelmina Seegmiller (1911)
"THE SKY Dippers Have yon ever seen the big dipper in the sky? See. here is a picture of it! ... Why, do you think, are the dippers in the sky? ..."

5. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"SI: Dippers. GENUS CINCLUS. 701. Cinclus mexicanus Swains. WATER OUZEL: DIPPER. Bill shorter than head, slender, and compressed; wing short, stiff, rounded, ..."

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