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Dowse   /daʊs/   Listen
Dowse

noun
1.
Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod.  Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy.



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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books



... for end, as one might say; and I endeavour to pay you, in your own coin. There is no man whose orders I obey more willingly or more to my own advantage; always excepting those of Admiral Oakes, who, being commander-in-chief, overlays us all with his anchor. We must dowse our peaks to his signals, though we can maintain, without mutinying, that the Caesar is as good a boat on or off a wind, as the Plantagenet, the best day Sir Jarvy ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... both of you," cried Jack, in a quick, earnest tone; "be ready to dowse the sail. I very much fear we won't make the island ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... And could have given him, she told the widow (who related to me all this) a good dowse of ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson


Words linked to "Dowse" :   douse, sluice, divine, slacken, soak, divination, ret, dowsing, flush, foretelling, bate, soothsaying, brine, wet, draggle, remit, bedraggle, fortune telling


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