divining rod
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
divining rod (plural divining rods)
- Rod used for dowsing, a technique of divination used to locate subterranean sources of water, metal, other mineral resources or even various other things through magic, or according to many believers a natural phenomenon.
- Synonyms: dowsing rod, dowser, (obsolete) virgula, doodlebug
Translations[edit]
rod used for dowsing
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See also[edit]
- diviner
- rhabdomantist (“one adept at using a divining rod”)
Further reading[edit]
- dowsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Divining-rod in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967