dowse Meaning & Definition

  • En [ daʊz]
  • Us [ daʊz]

Meaning of dowse In English

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Examples of dowse

  • They now propose to continue this light, but to dowse it for a time and to substitute a barrier.

  • The immediate and overriding aim must be to dowse the fire.

  • Why not fit water sprinkling devices, as in factories and aircraft carriers, to dowse a fire at its onset?

  • When he reported the problem, he was so disgusted that no action was taken—although a serious fire had occurred, it was dowsed—that he rejoined the strike.

  • He then describes dowsing with a forked twig although he rejects the method himself.

  • The end of her life was spent in the study of religion and meditation, while living in destitution, giving occasional consultations on dowsing and acupuncture.

  • In 1913, he published a manuscript on dowsing.

  • The friend had no hope as he had dowsed in the farm before and no water is found.

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