Citations:dipper


 * 1863, Reports from Commissioners, page 90:
 * William Flenn, age 13.—Here 6 months. Comes at 6; goes at 6, sometimes 7. "Shoves on." That is, shoving the 'clams' on the stone for the dipper. [...] While the dipper is dipping, the "compo" flies off sometimes and gets on their flesh, and burns them. (Shows a festery burn on wrist.) It burns holes in his waistcoat sometimes. (I saw them.) There is another boy to his dipper. Another dipper dips, but only now and then in the day. He has two boys then also. Works with the dipper all day. His dipper dips from 7 till 5. Only stops for his dinner. Does not stop else.