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blowtorch
[ bloh-tawrch ]
noun
- a small portable apparatus that gives an extremely hot gasoline flame intensified by a blast, used especially in metalworking.
verb (used with object)
- to weld, burn, or ignite with or as with a blowtorch.
blowtorch
/ ˈbləʊˌtɔːtʃ /
noun
- a small burner that produces a very hot flame, used to remove old paint, melt soft metal, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blowtorch1
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Example Sentences
He has delivered a tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift.
Inspired, they sent Trinquier's book, La guerre moderne (“Modern Warfare”), to CIA agent Robert “Blowtorch Bob” Komer.
If you put a frying pan in water, you could put a blowtorch on the other side and it won't make any difference.
Mostly things like hacksaws and an electric drill, and a circular scar where a blowtorch had been sitting.
Heat the cement with a blowtorch and apply it to the bruised parts.
We can play a blowtorch over Harper's suit and any poison will be burned away.
"He's probably gone to find a blowtorch to shave with," Zircon rumbled.
A lot of cable to fit, and no blowtorch, and you tell me we can manage!
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