Definitions for dowses

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dowses dowse

Spelling: [dous]

IPA: /daʊs/

Dowses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in dowses (deossw).

Definitions for dowses

noun

1. British Dialect. a stroke or blow.

verb (used with object)

1. to search for (as water) by or as if by dowsing.
2. to plunge into water or the like; drench:
3. to splash or throw water or other liquid on:
4. to extinguish:
5. Informal. to remove; doff.
6. Nautical. to lower or take in (a sail, mast, or the like) suddenly. to slacken (a line) suddenly. to stow quickly.

verb (used without object)

1. to search for underground supplies of water, metal, etc., by the use of a divining rod.
2. to plunge or be plunged into a liquid.

verb (used with or without object)

1. douse.

Origin of dowses

First recorded in 1685-95; orig. dial. (SW England); origin obscure

Examples for dowses

Soon a hurried order to “dowse top-gallant-sails and reef top-sails” made me slide down rather hastily from my elevated position.

And there's a pail of water and soap there by the doorway; it will do you no harm to dowse with it.

Sing out when you're in bed, and I'll come and dowse the lights.

"You are not going to Mr. and Mrs. dowse, Violet," said he promptly.

dowse's other cases are not at all conclusive in their clinical histories; even the diagnosis was not established by autopsy.

To lower down a sail, or to pull down a colour, is to dowse it; and so of many other things.

In the rooms of that society is preserved the dowse Library.

"dowse that, Billy, and bear a hand and be quiet," said Crennell.

Miss dowse was fifteen, and she called her uncle's clerk Jamie; so she elevated her look when she came to our Mercedes.

Mr. Butt, please convey to Mr. dowse my grateful and sincere thanks.