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blowlamp

blowlamp

English

Noun

blowlamp (plural blowlamps)

  1. A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,
      [] the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.