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torch
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torch
1. a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries
2. any apparatus that burns with a hot flame for welding, brazing, or soldering

torch [tȯrch]
(building construction)
To apply lime mortar under the top edges of roof tiles or slates.
(engineering)
A gas burner used for brazing, cutting, or welding.


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Fire is a recurring theme of the novel, with Wright's home Taliesin burning down regularly, and this description of a shack Wright himself puts to the torch demonstrates the author's clean, searing imagery: Soon there was no roof to that place, and soon after, the skeleton of it, the frame that gave it life, was a fiery X-ray of the interior.
 
 
 
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