dowse

• IPA^(key): /daʊs/

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dowse (third-person singular simple present dowses, present participle dowsing, simple past and past participle dowsed)

1. Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”)

• IPA^(key): /daʊs/

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dowse (third-person singular simple present dowses, present participle dowsing, simple past and past participle dowsed)

1. Alternative form of douse (“to strike”)

dowse (plural dowses)

1. Alternative form of douse (“strike”)

Unknown; originally a dialectal term from southern England.

• enPR: daus, dauz, IPA^(key): /daʊs/, /daʊz/
• Rhymes: -aʊz

dowse (third-person singular simple present dowses, present participle dowsing, simple past and past participle dowsed)

1. (intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

• dowsing rod

• Swedo-, sowed

dowse

1. Alternative form of douce