Dipper vs Lade - What's the difference?
dipper | lade |
Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping out liquids.
(slang) pickpocket
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
* Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
* Shakespeare
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
(nautical) To admit water by leakage.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
(Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between dipper and lade
is that dipper is any of various small passerine birds of the genus cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom while lade is (uk|dialect|obsolete) the mouth of a river.As a verb lade is
to fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).dipper
English
(wikipedia dipper)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (Cinclus)Derived terms
;birds of the genus Cinclus * * * * * ;cup-shaped vessel with a handle * Big Dipper * Little DipperAnagrams
*lade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), akin to (etyl) ).Verb
- And they laded their asses with the corn.
- to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
- And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
Etymology 2
English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare (lode), (lead) to conduct.Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Gibson)
