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I never heard it in the UK either...
Feb 25 · 4 months ago
📷 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 😅
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