blowtorch
noun
blow·torch
ˈblō-ˌtȯrch 
: a small burner having a device to intensify combustion by means of a blast of air or oxygen, usually including a fuel tank pressurized by a hand pump, and used especially in plumbing
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Rabbi Shaul Reizes uses the blowtorch to light the first, rightmost candle and leads the children and a crowd of grownups assembled behind them at Habima Square in Tel Aviv in singing the Hanukkah blessings.
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Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Just before Thanksgiving, Steffen Flessa lit a blowtorch inside John Derian’s Holiday Shop, on East Second Street.
—Emilia Petrarca, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Witnesses said the thieves tried to set the lift truck on fire with a handheld blowtorch and gasoline but were interrupted by a museum security officer.
—John Miller, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
Watch the creation of frozen holiday sculptures using chisels, chainsaws and blowtorches.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2025
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Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Just before Thanksgiving, Steffen Flessa lit a blowtorch inside John Derian’s Holiday Shop, on East Second Street.
—Emilia Petrarca, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Witnesses said the thieves tried to set the lift truck on fire with a handheld blowtorch and gasoline but were interrupted by a museum security officer.
—John Miller, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
Watch the creation of frozen holiday sculptures using chisels, chainsaws and blowtorches.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Blowtorch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blowtorch. Accessed 26 Dec. 2025.
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blowtorch
noun
blow·torch
-ˌtȯrch
: a small burner whose flame is made hotter by a blast of air or oxygen
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