Meanings of dowse in English

Carefully rethinking my words, I once again repositioned the rods to dowse.

It's like I can dowse for the dead with my silver eye now.

He got out of bed, to dowse his head in a basin of water.

Now then, lads, dowse the sail smartly and get to work with the bucket.

There were continual scuffles including an attempt to dowse the flame with a fire extinguisher.

Some one sung out from among ourselves to "dowse the glim."

Here, dowse your head in this water.

Me and Jamie are going to dowse a little and try to find a place to dig.

I can dowse you out anywhere.

Yet she still stared at the bailiff as if she wanted to dowse him in the foulest animal matter possible.

It was the way Mama Sweet's husband Norville held a willow-fork when he was trying to dowse somebody a well.

Tells about a visit he made to an orchard to select new sticks to dowse with...

If Ambrose had found some blood, he could have turned it over to Jamison and had him dowse out the thief.

And could have given him, she told the widow (who related to me all this) a good dowse of the chaps.

On his way to the stage he ducked into the Men's Dressing Room to adjust his clothing, and dowse his burning cheeks with cold water.

But John Baker from Kent is one of those who is regularly employed by companies and private individuals to dowse for water and other materials.