1808 J. N. Barker iii. i. 47 [She] lit me with her pine-knot torch to bedward.
1842 C. F. Hoffman 50 'Tis he who holds the pine-knot torch, That seems her blazing path to scorch.
1999 (Nexis) 25 Apr. e11 Teachers could..listen to self-improvement lectures by the light of pine-knot torches.