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dowser::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
| Type of | stick |
| Derivation | dowse |
dowser::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rhabdomancer, water witch |
| Type of | diviner |
| Derivation | dowse |
Examples of dowser
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Mizukami finds the truth like a dowser finding a corpse while looking for water.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites.
From the time.com
The dowser found them all and some that were not marked on the map.
From the newscientist.com
The dowser was to try and find archeological sites were the symbols had been removed from the map.
From the newscientist.com
Melvin Grafton, 49, a nephew, hired a local water dowser to wring what tips he could from a road map.
From the time.com
He used a dowser and walked from room to room.
From the couriermail.com.au
The dowser Thomas Charles Lethbridge claimed to have discovered a group of three hidden chalk carvings in the Gogmagog Hills.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mr. Boczar had already consulted a dowser in New York, Ted Kaufmann, who helped solve missing-persons cases for law-enforcement authorities by consulting the movement of a swinging pendulum.
From the nytimes.com
- Water witch: someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water
- Divining rod: forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil
- (dowse) douse: wet thoroughly
- (dowse) drench: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- (dowsing) dowse: searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
- Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation (Ley lines), without the use of scientific apparatus. ...
- (dowse) A blow on the face; To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse; To beat or thrash; To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc
- (dowsing) The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power
- (Dowse) To put out a light or fire.
