dowsing rod

noun

Examples of dowsing rod in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There, a mesmerizing video projection by Dionne Lee, of Columbus, Ohio, in which two hands pilot dowsing rods through tall grass, has a luxurious amount of floor space (and two sofas) to itself. Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Anaheim Model colonists must have come to California with dowsing rods packed in their trunks, because job one was always securing water. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023 Skeptics folded origami flying pigs (the Pigasus) and used mock dowsing rods, then gathered at Del Mar, an in-casino bar, to tipple and talk. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023 Peter Britton, a longtime water dowser, demonstrated his dowsing rod while spending time at Three Sisters Garden in Ipswich. Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022 Geller was shown on multiple occasions to be a fraud yet still somehow managed to secure steady streams of funding from oil and mining companies to act as a psychic dowsing rod. Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020 And given that some military organizations were once convinced that dowsing rods were a good investment, this work should be a shoe-in and may even provide some benefit. Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

1691, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dowsing rod was in 1691

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“Dowsing rod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dowsing%20rod. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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