water finder

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   forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil

   Synonymsdivining roddowserdowsing rodwaterfinder

   Broaderstick

Questions about water finder

What does water finder mean?

water finder means "forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil".

What is another word for water finder?

Close synonyms include divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, waterfinder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water finder a common word?

water finder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.