How to pronounce dowse

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What dowse means

verb

To search for underground water using a forked stick

In a sentence: Grandpa likes to dowse for water, walking slowly across the field with a forked stick.

Where it comes from: No one is sure where it came from. It started out as a word used in southern England.

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