dowser

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The Colonel was a proficient dowser, however, and decided to use his skills to solve the problem.

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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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  • Today, 'radionics' devices are used by many homeopaths to prepare remedies, based on the 'geomagnetic potentiser' invented by Malcolm Rae (1913-1979) [13], an electronic engineer and dowser. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The latter happening to be crossing the hall at the time, heard Hamar and asked what he wanted Hamar at once informed him he was a dowser, and that, chancing to pass by the garden on his way to his hotel, he had divined the presence of water I only wish there were," the gentleman exclaimed, "but I fear you are mistaken. —  The Sorcery Club
  • Have you ever heard of a dowser If you mean a man who finds places for wells, and locates mines by means of a hazel twig The hazel twig is immaterial," Morgan told him. —  Talents, Incorporated
  • But now Fear has bleacht their swagger and left them blank Fear of a loon that cried, End of the World Huff Shale, do you know what we're to do Shale I'ld like To have the handling of that dowser-man Huff Just that, my lad, just that Warp And your fired rick Huff Let it be blazes! —  Georgian Poetry 1913-15
  • She was supported by Warren Whittaker, a map dowser who waved his hand over a map to —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
 

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