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Forked stick said to indicate underground water or oil
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dowser
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water [syn: water witch , rhabdomancer ] forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil [syn: divining rod , dowsing rod , waterfinder , water finder ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bearing in mind the cautions of Chapter 5, what have dowsers to tell us about sites and earth energies? ▪ It is generally invisible, but can be detected by sensitives or dowsers. ▪ The dowsing response can tell as much about ...
Usage examples of dowser.
A lot of companies use dowsers to locate everything from water to underground power cables, because they happen to be very effective.
Wells have been well hidden, and we must now ask Dowsers, who use long Hazel Wands in much the same way, to find them.
But dowsers authenticated their alien origin, and channellers made contact with the entities responsible.
Where she could watch the one who had been called Thyra, for it was Thyra who had felt her dowser magic, and Thyra who had led Atelic to the Trader witches.
And if I hadn't used the dowser when Gergo told me to keep it hidden, your people never would have been caught by Atelic.
And since doodlebugs were right scarce, mostly being found among seventh sons or thirteenth children, Hank never wished anymore that he was a doodlebug instead of just a dowser, or not often, anyway.
So drillers followed dowsers, and pipeline crews went out after the drillers, and tent teams were out all around the piste, and up the Reull canyon above Har-makhis, helping the Sufis deal with a badly fretted canyon wall.
He might've been just a boy, though more like a near-man these days, height coming on him kind of quick, his hands and feet getting big even faster than his legs and arms was getting long, but Arthur Stuart was an expert, he was a bona fide certified scholar on one subject, and that was Alvin, journeyman blacksmith, itinerant all-purpose dowser and doodlebug, and secret maker of golden ploughs and reshaper of the universe.