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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.
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
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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