torchlight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   light cast by a burning torch or, especially in British English, a handheld flashlight

   By torchlight, the rescuers could just make out the path through the cave.

A compound of torch + light. It first referred to illumination from burning torches and later also covered the beam of an electric torch in varieties of English where torch means flashlight.

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