water witch

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   someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water

   Synonymsdowserrhabdomancer

   Broaderdiviner

Questions about water witch

What does water witch mean?

water witch means "someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water".

What is another word for water witch?

Close synonyms include dowser, rhabdomancer. 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 witch a common word?

water witch 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.