transferred and figurative. The torches of Cupid and the Furies.

A resinous piece of pine used as a torch; a wood-torch.

Chiefly poetic. Something made of pinewood, as a ship, mast, or torch. Obsolete.

Resinous wood, splinters of which are burned to give light.

A knot of pinewood, esp. when burned as fuel for a fire or to provide illumination. Cf. pitch knot n. at pitch, n.1 compounds 2.

Used as a torch, or dipped in tallow and used as a candle.

the pitchy knot of a pine or other tree, usually burned as a fuel or to provide light (cf. pine knot, n.).

Anglo-Irish. A piece of bogwood burned for illumination.