Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hand-torch; a portable torch used for heating a small spot on any material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A burner that produces a hot flame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; ablowtorch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
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Examples
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Stenning was there with Fleming, a lighted blowlamp in his hand; they were labouring to get the starboard engine under way.
Movie Night 2010
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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Iron-bound sexual customs tend to wither under the blowlamp of urgent necessity.
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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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She's pale and pretty and all eyes-in her cowl-neck sweater-and she has a quirky and powerful flirtatious energy that she seems very aware of, that she can turn on and off like a blowlamp: or so it seems to me.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Back for lunch, cleaned the house, concreted the inspection hole some more - played with a blowlamp and some spare tarmac - apparently, you can indeed make it more malleable with a flame, and it resists burning nicely.
Planet SUSE 2008
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Back for lunch, cleaned the house, concreted the inspection hole some more - played with a blowlamp and some spare tarmac - apparently, you can indeed make it more malleable with a flame, and it resists burning nicely.
Planet SUSE 2008
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Back for lunch, cleaned the house, concreted the inspection hole some more - played with a blowlamp and some spare tarmac - apparently, you can indeed make it more malleable with a flame, and it resists burning nicely.
Planet SUSE 2008
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Bringing back Mandelson could be seen as a masterstroke in that: it will grab the headlines away from the more controversial moves; bring in from the old one of the most talented, and arguably mistreated New Labour politicians during the past decade; and demonstrate Gordon has sufficient magnamimity to welcome back someone against whom he had long directed the blowlamp of his visceral dislike.
Skipper 2008
bestiary commented on the word blowlamp
for those who may be tired of saying blowtorch.
July 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word blowlamp
I, for one, never tire of saying blowtorch.
Blowtorch. Blowtorch. Blowtorch.
Although it does start to look a little funny after a while.
July 23, 2008
bestiary commented on the word blowlamp
but everyone and their mother has a blowtorch! and their little brothers are setting prostitutes on fire with blowtorches in grand theft auto.
blowlamp makes me think of some sort of hand-held, elongated (as a glowworm) glowblowfish that puffs out poofs of bright, fiery gas from its angry little fishyface. and i like words that are likely to see at least one reply of, "the what? who?"
July 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word blowlamp
The what? Who?
P.S. I can't be sure, but I don't think my mother has a blowtorch. At least not one she'd admit to.
July 23, 2008