torch
Nouns
- (n) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- (n) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein,
- (n) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp flashlight,
- (n) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame blowlamp, blowtorch,
Verbs
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(v) burn maliciously, as by arson
- The madman torched the barns