dowse

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Joe Dance and me'll keep the schooner steady on her course till you've had your dowse, and then you come up and give us a turn below I can't leave the deck, Tom Yes you can, sir, and you must.

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  1. intransitive verb To use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals.
  2. verb Variant of douse1.

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  • You could dowse for all sorts of things, but this particular one was built to dowse for marijuana in students 'lockers. —  Michael Shermer on strange beliefs
  • Five sessions will teach you how to dowse a well, find lost objects, clear a house of negative energy and so much more. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • The four alarm fire sent crews from Tiltonsville, Yorkville, Rayland and Martins Ferry to dowse the blaze. —  7 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
  • What's more, no matter how much loose powder I dowse my face with, the shine shines through.
  • Efforts to dowse the brush fire were successful, and the fire in the building was extinguished.
 

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