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Meanings of dowsing in English
Portuguese
radiestesia Synonyms
Examples for "dowse"
Examples for "dowse"
1
Carefully rethinking my words, I once again repositioned the rods to dowse.
2
It's like I can dowse for the dead with my silver eye now.
3
He got out of bed, to dowse his head in a basin of water.
4
Now then, lads, dowse the sail smartly and get to work with the bucket.
5
There were continual scuffles including an attempt to dowse the flame with a fire extinguisher.
1
But our village friend, though perhaps constructively right in his philosophizing, was certainly very defective in his acquaintance with the time-honoured art of rhabdomancy.
2
Hazel-rods were used to "divine" for water and minerals by professors of an art which received the crack-jaw title of Rhabdomancy.
Usage of dowsing in English
1
Find out more about dowsing by going to the Dowsing Society website.
2
She quickened her pace, stabbing ahead of her with the dowsing rod.
3
Alison thinks Wharepapa farm is the only one where dowsing is practiced.
4
Aaron saw Swan's dowsing rod lying in the snow and retrieved it.
5
This is the best dowsing rod you could wish for, child!
6
Lord Alvin reached over and took the dowsing rod from Imp.
7
Critics compared the device, which was supposed to detect explosives, to dowsing rods.
8
It can't be more than forty feet to the dowsing rod!
9
The dowsing rod and Ric's special talent do the finding.
10
Grudgingly, I removed my gloves and pulled my dowsing rods from my back pocket.
11
Venus is drowsing and dowsing, hearkening to the stirring in her sac of waters.
12
Aaron stood watching, wide-eyed, and holding onto the dowsing rod.
13
They had a dowsing compass and some of my hair.
14
The compass needle bobbed and wobbled like a dowsing stick.
15
Led by Saleh's memory, Yehudah Schaalman walked east along the path of the dowsing spell.
16
Some of them indicate water, which can be found by dowsing with a divining rod.
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