Definition of "torcher"

torcher

/ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚ/

noun
plural torchers
1. One who torches something.
2. (obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
  Quotations
  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] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], line 162
3. (music) A torch song
  Quotations
  […] 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. (science fiction) The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).