blowlamp

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English

Etymology

blow +‎ lamp

Noun

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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,[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.