LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
Of this kinde, there is founde an other, the Spikes, eares, or torches wherof, are very dubble, ſo as in euery Spyky eare, in ſteede of the little knappes or heades, it bringeth forth a number of other ſmal torches, wherof eche one is lyke to the ſpike or torch of great Plantayne.
To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1, sense 1).
To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.
The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche);...
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To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.