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Dowser   Listen
noun
Dowser  n.  
1.
A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod. (Colloq.)
2.
One who uses the dowser or divining rod.





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"Dowser" Quotes from Famous Books



... divining rod an exploded superstition. Its efficacy in finding water, I reminded him, was now admitted by the most sceptical science, and I was able to inform him that a great American railway company paid a yearly salary to a "dowser" to guide it in the construction of new roads through a country where water was scarce and ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... been shown and had tasted the disagreeable little orange berry which has a hard green knob at the end of it and is, for some ironical reason, called a cherry. She also told Moongarr Bill that in England she had seen a dowser searching for hidden springs by means of a forked hazel twig carried in front of him which pointed downwards where there was water and asked why Australians didn't adopt a similar method. At which ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed


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