blowtorch

[ bloh-tawrch ]

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noun

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

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of blowtorch

First recorded in 1905–10; blow² + torch¹

Words Nearby blowtorch

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How to use blowtorch in a sentence

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Firefighters from nearby towns had to chip away at the chocolate with shovels, and even resorted to burning it off with blowtorches.
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In a gas stove, a powerful broiler resembles something more like a very handy flamethrower or blowtorch.
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He has delivered a tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift.
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Inspired, they sent Trinquier's book, La guerre moderne (“Modern Warfare”), to CIA agent Robert “blowtorch Bob” Komer.
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If you put a frying pan in water, you could put a blowtorch on the other side and it won't make any difference.
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Mostly things like hacksaws and an electric drill, and a circular scar where a blowtorch had been sitting.
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Heat the cement with a blowtorch and apply it to the bruised parts.
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We can play a blowtorch over Harper's suit and any poison will be burned away.
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"He's probably gone to find a blowtorch to shave with," Zircon rumbled.
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A lot of cable to fit, and no blowtorch, and you tell me we can manage!
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British Dictionary definitions for blowtorch

blowtorch

/ (ˈbləʊˌtɔːtʃ) /

noun

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

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