Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who uses a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals.
- noun A divining rod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
douser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
- noun One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc.; adowsing rod . - noun One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water
- noun forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil
Etymologies
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Examples
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Outdoors in the sculpture court, local bands Atole, Tu Fawning and E*Rock, will play throughout the day and visitors can watch an expert "dowser" uncover the colors and sounds of works of art, see a demonstration of printmaking at a mobile print factory and sample specially made beer brewed to complement individual museum objects for the event by Old Lompoc, Laurelwood and Lucky Lab.
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That ilk aren't left, right or middle and they couldn't care less because they're without a moral compass, relying instead on the guidance of a cash dowser that they whittle up for themselves under the tutelage of sc**bags like Goldschmidt and others who perpetuate the cycle of pro abusus publico.
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In the 1950's, urban renewal's principal tool was the bull-dowser.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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In the 1950's, urban renewal's principal tool was the bull-dowser.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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Hereabouts we need a dowser for water, though you get asked to search for other things too.
Watershed 2010
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Someone could have taken it while I was dallying with a dowser!
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Like a drunken dowser I stumble and lurch, feeling my way down channels of sucking mud, bumping between ridges of slippery mud.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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They would not be fooled by my claim that I knew the tunnels because I was a dowser.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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That I'm a dowser, a human divining road who can locate hidden stores of penises underground?
Sara Davidson: My First Job As A "National Penis Finder" 2009
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The dowser was looking as dazed and embarrassed as I felt, thank God.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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