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torch

noun
  1. a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
    blowtorch
  2. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
    flashlight
  3. a light usually carried in the hand
  4. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers
    “ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches”
    common mulleingreat mulleinflannel mulleinwoolly mullein
verb
  1. burn maliciously, as by arson
    “The madman torched the barns”