torcher

plural torchers

1. One who torches something.

   The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.

2. obsoleteOne 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 162

3. entertainmentA 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. entertainmentA 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. literatureThe pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).