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  • noun The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.
  • verb Present participle of dowse.

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  • noun searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod

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Examples

  • SOLOMON - Whether a person believes grave dowsing is just speculation or whether someone is a true believer, Ron Britt of Abilene is convinced that the method works.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Eagle of June 29, 2005: For him, grave dowsing is no myth

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Thweatt used written accounts, found objects and a method called dowsing to accumulate information about the towns.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2010

  • Kim is giving away two copies of Ghost Huntress Book 1: THE AWAKENING by Marley Gibson and one lucky winner will get a special "dowsing" pendant necklace with their book.

    Mega Giveaway List of Books & More 07/15/09 Donna 2009

  • Kim is giving away two copies of Ghost Huntress Book 1: THE AWAKENING by Marley Gibson and one lucky winner will get a special "dowsing" pendant necklace with their book.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Donna 2009

  • He’s generally friendly, but he does call the dowsing rod wielding Coraline a “water witch “.

    Movie Review – Coraline « Become A Robot 2009

  • So many persons of undoubted integrity believe in 'dowsing' that he is a somewhat rash man who summarily dismisses the matter.

    Style. 1908

  • Another phase of psychic activity is that illustrated in "dowsing" or water-finding by means of the hazel fork.

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • The handheld device has no electronic components and is said to operate on the unproven, pseudoscientific "dowsing" principle used to search for water.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • The handheld device has no electronic components and is said to operate on the unproven, pseudoscientific "dowsing" principle used to search for water.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

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