flame-thrower

noun

One grill turned into a flame-thrower for a 28-year-old woman after the propane hose came loose and sprayed her with flames.

Now, as he sets his sights on Obama, he's a pandering hyper-partisan flame-thrower.

Vindictive was being conned from the flame-thrower hut on the port end of the conning-tower platform.

One passed in just beneath the foremost flame-thrower hut and burst on impact.

The conning position in the flame-thrower hut was well chosen, our heads being about five feet above the top of the Mole wall.

The other innovation was the "flame-thrower," an apparatus which threw a flame of burning liquid or gas far ahead of the troops.

Fitzhugh got out his miniature flame thrower and puffed his pipe alight.

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