torcher
nounUS /ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚ/ · UK /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology From torch + -er.
1
One who torches something.
- The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.
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Obsolete One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
- Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, […]c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 162:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A torch song
- […] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A singer of a torch song
- What did the girl do before she married Eddie Mars? Torcher. Can’t you get any old professional photos?1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 20, in The Big Sleep, New York: Knopf:
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).