pencil torch

noun

pencil torch

noun

1

A small, long and thin flashlight.

He risked a quick glance with his pencil torch and immediately the underbelly of the mass of brown tree-coral came alive.1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 202:

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