Wiktionary
n. Alternative name for a divining rod
WordNet
n. forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil [syn: divining rod, dowser, waterfinder, water finder]
Usage examples of "dowsing rod".
Denis, his dog hot behind him, cantered off down the street, barely able to keep up with his own dowsing rod.
Although divining has been around in various forms for millennia, the well-known forked stick method appears to have been devised in the mining districts of Germany (you can supposedly find minerals with a dowsing rod, too) in the late 15th or early 16th century.
He gestured with his stick, and I realized with faint amusement that it was a dowsing rod.
He had been intending to use it as a dowsing rod, but now observed that it was tingling as if with a mild electric current.
If one of us brought it up, I was usually the one who led the hooting and we all suggested he go over the search area with a dowsing rod.
The finger stopped, the tip still trembling minutely, like a dowsing rod at the edge of an aquifer.