noun A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.
noun A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
noun Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.
noun A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame. A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets. The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus). A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
noun A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
noun A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
noun The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
noun A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.