blowtorch

American  

[bloh-tawrch] / ˈbloʊˌtɔrtʃ /

noun

• blowtorches
  plural

1. a small portable apparatus that gives an extremely hot gasoline flame intensified by a blast, used especially in metalworking.

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verb (used with object)

1. to weld, burn, or ignite with or as with a blowtorch.

blowtorch British  

/ ˈbləʊˌtɔːtʃ /

noun

1. a small burner that produces a very hot flame, used to remove old paint, melt soft metal, etc

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blowtorches
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of blowtorch

First recorded in 1905–10; blow ² + torch ¹

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Example Sentences

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The team looked at a lot of images of barbecued meat during the design process, and even took a blowtorch to steak to experiment with color and texture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

She used food colouring to get the right shade of blonde for Swift's hair and a blowtorch to add a shine to her trousers.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024

“He then used some instrument, perhaps a blowtorch, he used it as an igniting agent,” Salas Chavez said in Spanish.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2023

His frilled collar and skull had been badly burned, as if the guy had decided to wash his hair with a blowtorch.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Firefighters were eventually forced to melt it down after fans attempted to thaw the sculpture with blowtorches and chip away at it with sledgehammers.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Employees told firefighters that work was being performed on the roof earlier that day and that roofers had been using blowtorches to melt down material, according to reporting from KTLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

A similar technique called flame-weeding, which involves outfitting tractors with blowtorches, is still a little too volatile for widespread adoption in the United States.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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