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nouna small portable battery-powered electric lamp
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nouna burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flametype of:
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nountall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torchestype of:
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nouna light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substancetype of:
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"The madman torched the barns"verbburn maliciously, as by arson
Definition that contains torch
- torch tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- torchlight light from a torch or torches
- sconce a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- torch race (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next
- woolly mullein tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- flannel mullein tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- flambeau a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
- torch singer a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
- great mullein tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- linkboy (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets