Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises rhabdomancy, or uses the divining-rod to discover water; a bletonist.
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Examples
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-- Professor Ray Lankester, having recently expressed some doubts of the alleged powers of a boy "water-finder."
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various
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'The water-finder will also predict the quality of the water, and so prevent you from wasting labour on a brackish spring.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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[Sidenote: On Water-finders.] 'Your Greatness tells us that a water-finder has come to Rome from
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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