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Dowser

noun
1.
Someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water.  Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch.
2.
Forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil.  Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder.






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"Dowser" Quotes from Famous Books



... times if he considered the 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 hard ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... pies and flagons, Bucks from city and flash young bloods With vests "cut saucy" to show their studs, Hawbuck Towler and Spicey Random Tooled in style in a rakish tandem. Blood Dick Haggit and Bertie Askins Had dancers' skirts on their horses' gaskins; Crash Pete Snounce with that girl of Dowser's Drove a horse that was wearing trousers; The waggonette from The Old Pier Head Drove to the tune ...
— Right Royal • John Masefield



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