Meaning of honey-dipper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.
2. A worker who collects household sewage from sewage tanks.

Examples

“He specialises in small items such as light pulls, ornamental eggs, and honey-dippers — and in true environmental fashion, Nick lets nothing go to waste.”

“Older stuffees may appreciate a variety of teas or coffees, perhaps with a honey-dipper and small jar of honey thrown in.”

“Not only do they use twigs to fish termites out of their mounds, they use them as honey-dippers when they find wild-bee hives, and as picks to extract fatty marrow from the bones of the monkeys they sometimes kill for meat.”

“FREE Honey-Dipper or Keychain”

“I’ve found the wood of older ceanothus shrubs to be good for carving items like spoons, and I imagine it’d work well for hand-turned items like honey-dippers, candle holders, etc.”

“Ackling finds pieces of driftwood along the shore, or interesting wooden clothespins, finials, and honey-dippers in an antique market.”

“I wrote a paper proclaiming their brilliance and superiority and revised it at a small café featuring wooden hive-shaped honey-dippers in silver honeypots at every table.”

““He deliberately dumped sewage into the grate [atop the storm drain] whenever an emergency arose,” [Jane F.] Barrett continued. “God forbid that he should have to pay a honey-dipper to come out and clean up the septic systems” on the site.”

“The experience led to his new book “Outhouse Humor”, which is a collection of jokes, stories, songs, and poems about outhouses, and thunder-mugs, corncobs and honey-dippers, wasps and spiders and Sears Roebuck catalogues.”

“As a boy, he worked with the town honey-dipper to raise money for his family. This job was necessary before Greenwood had indoor plumbing.”

““The bid will be about $750,000, but we’ve included the addition of a pump site for honey-dippers,” [Fred] Peralta said, the term used to describe companies that collect waste from septic tanks.”

“Members of the City Council last looked at cat control in 1992, when Councilman John Conti, D-9, then a freshman, introduced legislation to ban cats from running at large and to require owners to basically be their cat’s personal honey-dipper.”

“And the school teacher’s social status was higher than that of the “honey-dipper” — but was that fair? To answer that question, you have to know what a honey-dipper did. He was the man who came around regularly to tip over the wooden, outdoor toilets, scoop up the excrement and haul it away in a truck. […] Honey-dippers had a sweaty, stinky job — and some people would make jokes about them, laugh, put them down. But if you think about it, you realize that if the honey-dippers hadn’t done their job, school would have had to be closed because of the health risk.”

“Those cottages, where no adequate new systems can be installed in shale soils, continue to be served by “honey-dippers,” two-person crews that pump effluents from holding tanks and ferry them away by boat for proper disposal.”

“A sewer system, constructed in the 1980s, replaced the community’s colossal holding tank and the man called the “honey-dipper” who cleaned it.”

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