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n. 1 Someone who carries a torch. 2 (context slang English) A cutting-torch wielder, a possible member of a safe-cracking team. 3 (context slang English) An arsonist who specifically ignites fires. 4 (context forestry English) A member of a firefighting team who ignites back fires.
Usage examples of "torchman".
He had always known his way through the Holding, even in the dark where the torchman had neglected his duties.
Suddenly making up her mind, Pen looked around for a torchman to light her way.
She yelled for the torchman, who looked behind him and then ran into the darkness, holding his torch aloft.
TWENTY-FOUR The torchman walking directly in front of Dake grunted and suddenly took it upon himself to pitch headfirst over the edge of the trail.
The torchman finished fitting the plutonium and carried the block to the tube opening.
At his direction, the torchman sliced a thin slot up the face of the crystal.
The torchman pushed him aside, cursing, and his fellow took Praisegood and pulled him to his feet beside the deadcart.
She gazed down into the courtyard where the torchmen paced their allotted beat.
The torchmen were leaving their posts in the central courtyard, and servants scurried around, extinguishing the pitch torches along the cloister walls.
The white gowns and red sashes of educators might be wedged between the purple-and-gold tunics of Magnificos and the scarlet cloaks and plumed headdresses of Torchmen, or some Falcons in close-fitting blue and gray cluster by some green-clad physicians.
One of the torchmen drove off a monster within claw's range of Hamil himself by thrusting the fiery end of the torch he held into the creature's half-open jaws.
While torchmen whirled their sad flambeaux until they flamed as yellow-bright as Rill's.
Two dozen men or so, their torchmen wearing red standards, all no doubt unaware of what ill wind blew before them.
Donal measured off a section of one wall and set his torchmen to work.