dippings

Noun

dipping (countable and uncountable, plural dippings)

1. An act or process of immersing.
   • […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “Henrie the second”, in The first and second volumes of Chronicles, page 82
2. The act of inclining downward.
3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
5. (US) The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
6. The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
   • That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35