blowlamp

Questions about blowlamp

What does blowlamp mean?

blowlamp means "a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame".

How many syllables are in blowlamp?

blowlamp has 2 syllables and divides as blow-lamp under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blowlamp?

Close synonyms include blowtorch, torch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blowlamp a common word?

blowlamp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.