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"word": "white-throated dipper"
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"word": "white-capped dipper"
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"word": "rufous-throated dipper"
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"word": "cup-shaped vessel with a handle"
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"word": "Big Dipper"
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"word": "dipper well"
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"word": "fanny dipper"
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"word": "faster than a minnow can swim a dipper"
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"word": "honey dipper"
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"word": "quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper"
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"word": "robin dipper"
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"word": "skinny dipper"
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"text": "A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]",
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"ref": "2001, Thermal Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, page 472",
"text": "When the engine runs the dipper dips in the oil once in every revolution of the crankshaft and the oil is splashed on the cylinder walls.",
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"A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them."
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"sense": "vessel",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "vi",
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