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Definition of Torchers
1. torcher [n] - See also: torcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torchers
Literary usage of Torchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1905)
"Item to ii torchers their nnd. Item for lytter \\d. ... Item peide to ii torchers
for a dey warke their ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... Links, Linkers, and torchers. Mention of the last classes suggests the nature
of the service they rendered to our belated ancestors in the unlighted, ..."
3. Using Civil Remedies for Criminal Behavior: Rationale, Case Studies by Peter Finn (1994)
"... salespeople, "torchers," transporters, and often drug dealers (in search of
extra cash) who locate, steal, transform, and ship stolen cars to customers. ..."
4. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1860)
"... 5 daubers, and torchers, 2d. or 3^d., their assistants receiving 1 %d.
with food, or 2£cZ. without ; at which latter rate 1 See, for example, p. ..."
5. Later Letters of Edward Lear: To Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford by Edward Lear (1911)
"... the Daily Telegraph, Athenaum, Pall Mall, Illustrated News, Post, etc., will
doubtless be rewarded in heaven, when the above three are in torchers. ..."
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