Definition of "dowsed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of dowse. (verb)

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• ""I can't hardly walk," said Hank, which was true; but it was also true that Gertie Smith cooked just as good as her husband forged and that prentice boy shod and Hank dowsed, which is to say, with a true knack."
• "I dowsed myself in cold water, but the plastic razor was blunt and could not cut through my shaggy beard."
• "I could remember being staked, beheaded, burned alive, dowsed in holy water, and even blown up by blessed charges of C4 by people and things with a much greater desire to see me dead than these fashion victims."