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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator. But it does take minutes, and even I can remember shifting the electric torch from one hand to the other before the aperture was large enough to receive the hand and wrist of Raffles. "Here is that which will give us light," said Galazi, and one man of every two took a torch and lit it at a fire that burned near the mouth of the cave. |
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