torcher

Noun

torcher (plural torchers)

1. One who torches something.
   • The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.
2. (obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
   • Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
     Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, […]c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. A torch song
   • […] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader
4. A singer of a torch song
   • What did the girl do before she married Eddie Mars?
     Torcher.
     Can’t you get any old professional photos?1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 20, in The Big Sleep, New York: Knopf
5. The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).