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A dowser is someone who tries to find underground water — or sometimes minerals, , or lost things — by walking with a stick, two thin rods, or a pendulum and watching how it moves. People who trust the craft say the stick dips or the rods cross when water is near. Most scientists say there is no good proof that it works beyond luck and reading the land, though actually you will still meet dowsers in the countryside, and some well-diggers still call one in before they drill. The word itself is ordinary English, not slang; what feels uncertain is the job, which sits between folk skill and something many people do not take seriously.
尋水人
組成dowse (to search for water or minerals with a stick or rods) + -er (the person who does it).
同家族的字
- dowsethe verb for what this person does
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dowsernoun/ˈdaʊzə/
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A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc.; a dowsing rod.
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One who uses the dowser or divining rod. A diviner.
- Interestingly enough, John Mullins, the celebrated English dowser, was able to do this experiment using a forked twig, rather than a pendulum. He claimed to be able to locate nothing but water with his dowsing rod.
- The instrument a dowser uses is called a dowsing rod, dowsing stick, doodlebug (when used to locate oil), or divining rod. Almost any item can be used for this purpose: a birch twig, a whalebone, and even a hanger.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。