What is the meaning of torch?

A light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.
Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.
- synonyms: common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, Verbascum thapsus
A small portable battery-powered electric lamp.
- synonyms: flashlight
A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame.
- synonyms: blowtorch, blowlamp

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