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UK
/dˈaʊzɐ/
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NOUN
- forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil
- someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water
How To Use dowser In A Sentence
- Outdoors in the sculpture court, local bands Atole, Tu Fawning and E*Rock, will play throughout the day and visitors can watch an expert "dowser" uncover the colors and sounds of works of art, see a demonstration of printmaking at a mobile print factory and sample specially made beer brewed to complement individual museum objects for the event by Old Lompoc, Laurelwood and Lucky Lab. KPSU - Portland's College Radio
- In the 1950's, urban renewal's principal tool was the bull-dowser. Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse
- The experts in this dowsers' society say you can successfully dowse anything at all.
- Most psychics and dowsers, for example, do not even realize that they need to do controlled tests of their powers to rule out the possibility that they are deceiving themselves.
- On a hot summer day I came looking for water in a place where no water exists, the way dowsers do when they search for trapped, underground places, seeking out the ghost of water, its remanence. My (Imaginary) Dinner With Lydia Davis
- Mysteries abound, in large part because Cassandra's inherited skill as a dowser the term preferred by those who discover objects with the help of a Y-shaped divining rod helps her uncover truths others would rather keep buried. Latimes.com - News
- And, as usual in such matters, none of the participating astrologers, clairvoyants, ‘face readers,’ or dowsers who failed the tests, believe that their own claimed abilities are imaginary.
- Someone could have taken it while I was dallying with a dowser! Dancing with Werewolves
- That I'm a dowser, a human divining road who can locate hidden stores of penises underground? Sara Davidson: My First Job As A "National Penis Finder"
- He meets the girl who put the group together - Ao Sasaki - and when he gets to the forest, he meets the others - Makoto Numata, a dowser who finds dead people instead of water; Keiko Makino, an embalmer, which is rare in Japan because cremation is the principal way of disposing of the dead; and Yuji Yata, who speaks to aliens through his hand puppet. Graphic novels: old ones, new ones, “borrowed” ones, and blue ones – you could get married with these books! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources