noun / verb
torch
TORCH/tɔːrtʃ/
A carried source of flame used to illuminate.
The burning torch lights the stone passage.
Etymology
Old French torche denoted a torch as well as a handful of straw. The carried flame-light sense later broadened in British English to include battery-powered lights.
In context
If you need to travel, you depend on whatever light nature gives you. Perhaps the moon, perhaps a small lamp, perhaps a torch, and sometimes nothing more than memory.
More examples
- She raises her torch to see the markings on the wall.
- The torches flicker in the wind as we cross the courtyard.
- He dips the torch into water to put out the flame.
Forms
torch · torches · torched · torching
torchlight noun — Light produced by a burning torch.