flamethrower

One grill turned into a flame-thrower for a 28-year-old woman after the propane hose came loose and sprayed her with flames.
Fireworks, Lightning, Riding Lawnmowers and Other Summer Menaces|Trevor Butterworth|July 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now, as he sets his sights on Obama, he's a pandering hyper-partisan flame-thrower.
Newt Gingrich: From GOP Intellectual to Pandering Hyper-Partisan|John Avlon|March 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Vindictive was being conned from the flame-thrower hut on the port end of the conning-tower platform.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge|Alfred F. B. Carpenter
One passed in just beneath the foremost flame-thrower hut and burst on impact.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge|Alfred F. B. Carpenter

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 Blocking of Zeebrugge|Alfred F. B. Carpenter
The other innovation was the "flame-thrower," an apparatus which threw a flame of burning liquid or gas far ahead of the troops.
A School History of the Great War|Albert E. McKinley, Charles A. Coulomb, and Armand J. Gerson
Fitzhugh got out his miniature flame thrower and puffed his pipe alight.
Unwise Child|Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for flamethrower

flame-thrower

noun

a weapon that ejects a stream or spray of burning fluid

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