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scorcher
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
scorcher \scorch"er\ a very hot day. [Informal]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"very hot day," 1874, agent noun from scorch (v.). It also means or has meant "stinging attack" (1842), "pretty girl" (1881), "line drive in baseball" (1900).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scorcher may refer to: Scorcher (film) , a 2002 science fiction disaster film Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change , a 2007 book by Clive Hamilton Scorcher (magazine) , a football-themed British comic magazine Scorcher (video game) , a futuristic ...
Usage examples of scorcher.
Phyllis was lying at anchor about two miles off Cowes Harbour, and the Scorcher was lying with steam up some quarter of a mile inside her.
Tyrrell and Lieutenant-Commander Farquar were taking a very limited promenade on the narrow, rubber-covered decks of the Scorcher, they felt the boat heave jerkily under their feet.
The head-ray from the Scorcher shot down to the bottom of the Solent, wavered hither and thither for a few moments, and then remained fixed.
The Scorcher swung round to the eastward and began working in a zigzag course at quarter speed towards Spithead.
The engines of Le Vengeur stopped, and presently Tyrrell and Commander Farquar saw from the deck of the Scorcher a long, shining, hale-backed object rise above the surface of the water.
The moment that it came in sight the Scorcher stopped, and then moved gently towards Le Vengeur.
T-shirt, and a look in his eyes that still smoldered from some psychedelic scorcher that had made him swear off forever.
It was another scorcher of a day, and the cool air that flowed from the cave entrance was pleasantly enticing.
The day was bound to be a scorcher, 95-plus degrees even out here on the ocean, one of those days that used to be rare but in the past few years had become more and more common.
Captain Krausa paused while a Losian scorcher avoided the end of his nose.
But Sunday promised to be a scorcher, and the prospect of a long drive in an air-conditioned car was suddenly quite appealing.
Chapter 4 More than the heaviness of warm air told Luke that Wednesday would be a scorcher for this mountain.
Radio weather reports called for a real scorcher, even down in Vineland after the fog burned off.
Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.
Tombstone was thirty miles from Bisbee by the most direct route, and the day promised to be another scorcher.