dowser
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- noun A person who uses a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals.
- noun A divining rod.
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- Whatever power Hank had as a dowser, this boy was the enemy of his knack, that much Hank knew. — Prentice Alvin
- A dowser, an itinerant water-seeker, that's who had angered him, that's the one he meant to harm. — Prentice Alvin
- But the dowser was none of Peggy's concern; nor was his provocation, however mean or terrible. — Prentice Alvin
- It would destroy him, take away his name as a dowser -- and unfairly so, because he was a good dowser who got hisself fooled by the lay of the land. — Prentice Alvin
- "And I didn't mean to imply that you weren't a real dowser, sir." — Alvin Journeyman
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/ (douˈzər)/
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