The Clue
Ladles (7 letter answer)
The Answer
DIPPERS
Tags
Notes
The answer DIPPERS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Long-handled cups
Definition
DIPPERS as a noun:
1. (Church of the Brethren, Dunkers, Dippers) = a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
DIPPER as a noun:
1. a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
2. (Little Dipper, Dipper) = a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
3. (Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon) = a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
4. (bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola) = small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
5. (water ouzel, dipper) = small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom