A handheld tool that produces a hot, intense flame for melting, cutting, or welding metal and other materials.
A compound word combining 'blow' (Old English 'blāwan') and 'torch' (from Latin 'torqua'), describing a tool that blows flame like a torch.
The blowtorch revolutionized metalworking and construction in the 1900s, but it became infamous in crime history—countless noir films featured blowtorches as the ultimate tool for eliminating evidence, making it a symbol of violent crime in popular culture.
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