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blowlamp

noun

Etymology

From blow + lamp.

  1. derived from *leh₂p-✻
  2. derived from λαμπάς
  3. derived from lampas
  4. derived from lampe
  5. inherited from laumpe
  6. compounded as blowlamp — “blow + lamp”

Definitions

  1. A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame

    A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch

    • […] the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA