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BLOWLAMP

for what it's worth, while it's in the Merriam Webster, BLOWLAMP is very much a British usage and never heard in the US. We call that a blowtorch

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📷 sjlxndr

Feb 25 · 4 months ago

5 Comments ↓

🚀 stack [mod] · Feb 25 at 19:42:

agreed

🚀 mbays · Feb 25 at 22:02:

I never heard it in the UK either...

📷 sjlxndr [OP] · Feb 26 at 02:03:

interesting! what do you call that thing?

🚀 stack [mod] · Feb 29 at 16:32:

Although a blowtorch, in my mind, is a big rig with gas tanks, while a blowlamp implies a handheld device

📷 sjlxndr [OP] · Feb 29 at 22:36:

that makes sense, but I've always included both under "blowtorch" as "blowlamp" has never been in my vocabulary 😅