dowsing rod
Britishnoun
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The dowsing rods are handed to Grace who, like David, has been trying them for the first time.
From BBC
In the 1990s Alistair Munro, who lives nearby, walked Mantle Walls several times with the dowsing rods he used for locating underground water sources.
From BBC
It would just mean the E-Meter plays the same role in this Scientology sin-confession ritual that other divination tools — like pendulums and dowsing rods — play in absolution rituals of other traditions of belief.
From Salon
Model colonists must have come to California with dowsing rods packed in their trunks, because job one was always securing water.
From Los Angeles Times
"People were having funny feelings in it and their crystals were vibrating and their dowsing rods were going crazy," Mr Lundberg says.
From BBC
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