<span class="searchmatch">torch</span> <span class="searchmatch">runners</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> <span class="searchmatch">runner</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">torch</span> <span class="searchmatch">runner</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> <span class="searchmatch">runners</span>) A torchbearer, as in the Olympics. (Sussex) One who collects used <span class="searchmatch">torches</span> for a bonfire society on Bonfire Night....
a flaming <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> is ignited by the sun in Olympia at the ruins of the ancient Temple of Zeus. With that flame, relay <span class="searchmatch">runners</span> lighted <span class="searchmatch">torches</span> one from the...
was a dinner we should send one waiter to six guests—with <span class="searchmatch">runners</span>, of course.” / “<span class="searchmatch">Runners</span>?” / “Omnibuses you call them here—young ones—apprentices—who...
some say it dates back to at least the early 1900s and Finnish Olympic <span class="searchmatch">runners</span> who would use alternating short bursts of intensity with brief bouts of...
(genitive λαμπαδοδρομίᾱς); second declension <span class="searchmatch">torch</span>-race, a ceremony in Athens in which <span class="searchmatch">runners</span> carried lighted <span class="searchmatch">torches</span> from the altar of the gods Hephaestus...
λαμπᾰδιστής • (lampădistḗs) m (genitive λαμπᾰδιστοῦ); first declension <span class="searchmatch">runner</span> in a <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> race torchbearer First declension of ὁ λᾰμπᾰδῐστής; τοῦ λᾰμπᾰδῐστοῦ...
flare-up light I mean a large bright light waved in the air, something like a <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> dipped in resin and waved about. I am prepared to say that any person who...
[…] when he saw the fuse of the firecracker was lighted, he turned the <span class="searchmatch">torch</span> on the powder under the barrel of dried apples, and in a second everything...
Synonyms: overgo, overhaul, overtake We quickly outstripped the amateur <span class="searchmatch">runners</span>. 1567, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes...