dowser

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  1. noun A person who uses a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals.
  2. 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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