Hold a stick-up for water?

Usage examples of dowse.

Johnny dowses Mary with gasoline from an obscene Chimu jar of white jade.

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The connection with dowsing is through the magnetic fields set up by electrofiltration currents, a phenomenon familiar to the physical chemist.

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Medics dowsed the two with fresh water, plucked away the leeches, cut away their garments, all the while injecting them with painkillers and drying them off with crumpled veils of gauze and a hot air blower.

And with his going Kate dowsed the infernal light and blessed darkness came, and the stars shone, and she escaped into peace.

I would have thrown her out, dowsed the candles and gone to bed but when Priapus is in the ascendant, there is no sense to be found in men.

At each end was a bottle of water, with which they hastily dowsed the braziers.

Toli was already on his feet, having dowsed the fire and scattered the ashes, removing any sign that they had been there.

The fire was dowsed, latrines sealed, and the whole site carefully examined until they were satisfied that it was as they had found it.

Servants ran to the candle clusters, drew them down on their cords, and dowsed them.

With the discovery of the Western Aquifer the dowsing expeditions lost their urgency, and more emphasis was placed on tapping and pumping the aquifers already found, and constructing the infrastructure of the rim settlements.

Leona grasped Crybaby and pushed the dowsing rod firmly against Swan’s chest, then deliberately pulled her arm free from Swan’s fingers.

The lithivorous ferrecks used to dowse for larval chambers, and then used to sink the first shafts down to those larval chambers, are creatures akin to certain brood parasites within Behemoth nests, and are both fierce and highly dangerous to manage.

Denis, his dog hot behind him, cantered off down the street, barely able to keep up with his own dowsing rod.