Charles’s Wain.
1842. You all know the Dipper? Ann. Yes; it is in the Great Bear…. The Little Dipper is in Ursa Minor.—‘Lowell Offering,’ ii. 234, 236.
1858. [The comet’s tail] is at least as long as the whole of the Great Dipper.—Thoreau, ‘Autumn’ (1894), p. 74. (N.E.D.)
1869. [They would] search the skies for constellations that never associate with the “Big Dipper” they were so tired of.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ chap. i.
