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flamethrower

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A device that projects a flame for starting fires, it may also project additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.

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The word "flamethrower" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a portable weapon that shoots out a stream of ignited fuel, used to project a long, controllable stream of fire. Example: "The military unit was equipped with flamethrowers to clear out enemy bunkers and fortifications."

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The trio encounters Dr. No's much-feared fire-breathing "dragon," which turns out to be a tank equipped with a flamethrower.

Collectively known as Hobart's "funnies," these innovations included the Crab, a Sherman tank equipped with revolving flails for detonating enemy land mines, and the Crocodile, a Churchill tank equipped with a flamethrower in place of its machine gun.

Largely left to her own devices, Hushpuppy communes with the livestock (she has a gift for hearing the heartbeats of pigs and fowls), occasionally makes drastic attempts to feed herself (lighting the stove with a flamethrower) and ponders her memories of an absent mother.

Perhaps search for high ground, start work on a rat poison flamethrower, or else start scripting a CGI-laden sci-fi thriller based on the situation to star Tara Reid.

If that's not close enough to home for you, how about the case of Kevin Wood, who had learning disabilities and was attacked by a man and two children who used a can of de-icer as a flamethrower ion him in the North West of England.

Instead of protestors and dissenters being bundled away from the path of the celestial flame, let them flock towards it, so many moths with intense convictions, only to discover when they're in range that it's a fucking flamethrower!

Move Gazprom flamethrower from the city centre!" In the middle east, the 107-storey, 1,358ft Princess Tower in Dubai Marina will become the tallest residential tower in the world when it opens in the autumn.

"Who's to say who's right?" Similar, he says, is the national debate about using a flamethrower indoors.

The press portrays me as a wild flamethrower.

And yet the new historians of the Great War conclude that the generals did the best they could, in the face of the defensive advantage offered by the machine gun and the rapid-firing rifle, not to mention the more tactically inconclusive but still lethal gas and flamethrower.

Miller's debt to silent cinema is slightly quelled, in the new film, by the Doof Warrior, who hangs from the front of a truck and thrashes out power chords on his twin-necked guitar, which also acts as a flamethrower.

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