Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for applying heat to a small area; a small portable heater. See
gasoline torch .
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Examples
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Quadruple the barricade, but if they wanted to steal his drums, all they had to do was blow-torch the center panel of the door out like they did the sculptor's on the first floor.
Message '93 Ginnah Howard 2011
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Would you ever hand a human being over to a torturer who was waiting with a blow-torch and a pair of pliers to take them apart?
Johann Hari: Why Is Britain Keeping Jihadis but Deporting Their Victims? 2010
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Well, Relic will probably burn it with a blessed blow-torch.
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Paint the whole of the cake with egg white, and then blow-torch the marzipan so that it scorches slightly, giving a beautifully burnished look.
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I even bought a blow-torch to finish meat you can always find a use for a blow-torch around the house… while deciding to buy one of the few available inexpensive temperature control systems designed for crockpots.
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You mean if I put a blow-torch to your skin, it's not torture unless the entirety of your skin "fails."
Am I sick? Steven Barnes 2009
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Paint the whole of the cake with egg white, and then blow-torch the marzipan so that it scorches slightly, giving a beautifully burnished look.
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(Court Reporter types "at once", shows it to Judge Rittenhouse, lights it with a blow-torch, chases more women; Government officials enter, join crowd)
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Perhaps because the years in which I was probably identifying my gender role by mimicking my mother, she was wielding a hammer or a blow-torch more often than a vacuum cleaner or a rolling pin.
Gender Part 2: Sugar & Spice JLK 2009
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Ames called for a blow-torch, and soon a man came running.
Archive 2008-07-01 Dave Tackett 2008
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