torchless
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a word derived from
torch.
torchnouna light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
Example Sentences
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It is resolved—they march—consenting Night Guides with her star their dim and torchless flight; Already they perceive its tranquil beam Sleep on the surface of the barrier stream; Already they descry—Is yon the bank?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
From machicolated tower, keep, peel and curtain, the nimble Highlanders, torchless, scrambled down, cheering as they came.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr