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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Torcher

Torcher \Torch"er\, n. One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
torcher

"torch-carrier," c.1600; see torch (n.). Meaning "torch singer" attested by 1940.

Wiktionary
torcher

n. 1 One who torches something 2 (context obsolete English) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. 3 (context music English) A torch song

Usage examples of "torcher".

The assault charges, the restraining order, the accusations about that stupid Stealth Torcher, the damned murder, and Neville.

The DA, Berringer, was looking for a win, the department was having public relations problems and the Stealth Torcher business was making the whole community nervous.

I was working at the Santa Lucia Fire Department at the time and noticed that whenever one of the fires attributed to the Torcher happened, Dad was missing for a while.

I found some stuff in the garage, the same kind of accelerant that the Torcher had used, the fuse material.

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.

An atomic rocket-ship uses but a fraction of one percent of that energy, where­as the new torchers used better than eighty percent.

He thought he'd fall asleep if he stayed where he was, listening to the music, warmed by the glow of the torchers and the press of vampires.