Crossword clues for flamethrower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flamethrower \flamethrower\ n. (Mil.) a weapon that squirts ignited liquid or gelatinous fuel for several yards.
Wiktionary
n. A device that projects a flame for starting fires, it may also project additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
WordNet
n. a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards
Wikipedia
A flamethrower is a mechanical incendiary device designed to project a long, controllable stream of fire. They were first used by the Greeks in the 1st Century AD. In modern times, they were used during World War I, and more widely in World War II.
Some flamethrowers project a stream of ignited flammable liquid; some project a long gas flame. Most military flamethrowers use liquids, but commercial flamethrowers tend to use high-pressure propane and natural gas, which is considered safer. They are used by the military and by people needing controlled burning capacity, such as in agriculture (e.g., sugar cane plantations) or other such land management tasks. They can be designed to be either carried by the operator or mounted on a vehicle.
A flamethrower is a weapon that projects long streaks of flames.
- See List of flamethrowers
It can also refer to:
- Flame tank, a tank that does the same effect as a flamethrower
- Flamethrower radio station, another name for a clear-channel radio station
- "Flamethrower", a song by J. Geils Band on their album Freeze Frame
- A model of brightly colored salmon fly, from its appearance: see
- Flamethrower, a Pokémon attack
"Flamethrower" is a song by J Geils Band released in 1982 as the B side to " Freeze Frame" released on the album of the same name.
Usage examples of "flamethrower".
Gabin and loped off just before the Besas pocked and the flamethrower blackened the facade of the prison.
They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.
Fire coughed uncertainly from the mouths of the flamethrowers, spattering the hall along the floors, walls, and ceiling, where it clung in globs of what had to be a mix of gasoline or some other accelerant, and petroleum jellyhomemade napalm.
The radio was on all day as Tatiana filled her flamethrowers with thick petroleum and nitrocellulose, while through the open double doors the metal machine poured projectiles of different sizes onto the conveyor belt.
The Rebels broke for a well-deserved rest while trucks ran the burning and rubbled streets bringing in backpack flamethrowers for the troops and mix for the tanks.
They were well-armed, with heavy machine guns, mortars, rockets, flamethrowers, artillery, and just about anything the Rebels had with the exception of tanks and extremely long-range artillery.
The Rebels brought up flamethrowers, torching as they advanced, the flame-tossers adding a new element of fear among the punks.
The reports spoke of flamethrowers and dug-in T-34 positions, of deep echelons of unyielding defenders and close-quarters combat, of dozens of Tigers and Panthers destroying opposing Russian tanks by a score of seven to one throughout the day.
Beyond these were ballistic missile sites and nozzles for nerve gas and flamethrowers.
She exchanged salutes with the guard at the sea gate, walking through the open portals and under the snouts of the flamethrowers that protruded from the bunkerlike slits in the flanking towers.
At that second the blazing roof collapsed sending them reeling away to fall in a heap, the resulting gusher of sparks and embers turned into a flamethrower by the wind, blowtorching other houses, fences, and the next Teahouse.
But as Chip's previous experience with flamethrowers had been caramelizing sugar with a blowtorch, he was more than a bit nervous of the gadget.
In the twentieth and twenty-first it had been introduced to the sinister logic of bulldozers, flamethrowers, defoliants, and pesticides.
I said my final goodbyes to my platoon members, prepped the flamethrower, and sent a zillion pounds of hot lead into the moter Nazi alien's egg sac.
Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr Blue Bird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower.