What is "flame-thrower"

Usage examples of "flame-thrower".

With lance, bow, cannon and flame-thrower to cauterize the Vale, a hundred thousand men roared into the canyon and were met by a million of the damned.

Recognising the bubbling evil as no substance reach able by matter or material chemistry, and therefore ignoring the flame-thrower which loomed on my left, I threw on the current of the Crookes tube apparatus, and focussed toward that scene of immortal blasphemousness the strongest ether radiations which men's art can arouse from the spaces and fluids of nature.

Tarrie chivvied her brother into showing them where the flame-throwers were kept and helping the girls check out the tanks.

K'vin looked below and saw the unmistakable arrow of golden bodies in their low-level position, the flame-throwers which the queen riders used spouting here and there as they disintegrated stray strands escaping the higher ranks.

Dickie Chapelle proved herself braver than most men, parachuting behind enemy lines, submarining in dangerous waters, leading a patrol of Marines with flame-throwers, and finally blowing herself to fragments on a land mine in Vietnam.

Sufficient folk, those with families particularly, had volunteered for the Smithcrafthall’s various projects: not just the making of more agenothree flame-throwers and the maintenance of existing apparatus, but some scheme—and Giron was skeptical—of the Mastersmith’s to provide better communications between all Holds, Halls, and Weyrs.

Ernst led with the weed burner, a converted military flame-thrower.

Behind them were heavy-caliber machine guns, flame-throwers, a whippet tank, and a Bofors cannon.