dowsing
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈdaʊzɪŋ/
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radiestesia
- In spring, Old Abe carried him like a sack of feed corn while Ike's forked dowsing rod jumped and quivered.
- dowsing rod
They're referred to in the in the dowsing field as swing rods.
- They're referred to in the in the dowsing field as swing rods.
- But the dowser can hold these rods, and they can if their intention is dowsing for water.
Examples
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To locate the dugout, Vandewalle and Jacobs tried everything from ground-penetrating radar to dowsing.
Academic text (2009) -
No, it is a claim that one can locate water using a dowsing rod.
Blog text (27) -
I got me a dowsing rod out there.
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- It's a dowsing rod!
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However, dowsing has never survived empirical testing.
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It just looked like a fancy dowsing rod to me, but what do I know?
Fiction book (1999) -
Many farmers use dowsing to find underground water sources for irrigation.
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Using a dowsing rod can sometimes help detect hidden minerals in the ground.
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He learned dowsing from his grandfather, who taught him how to locate water wells.
Synonyms
A way of searching for underground water or minerals with a forked stick
A way of using a pendulum to try to find underground water or minerals
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dowsing may come from a word like douse, which means 'to put into or wet with water', and people used that idea when they talked about finding water under the ground. So dowsing means using a rod or stick to search for hidden water or minerals.