Definition of "flamethrowers" [flamethrowers]

• Plural form of flamethrower. (noun)

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• "Johnson and Schilling certainly are blessed, having the ability to throw 98 mph in the ninth inning, but to call these guys simply flamethrowers is like saying Picasso was a house painter."
• "Packs on the ramparts had fired some kind of flamethrowers into the pools of oil below the castle walls."
• "Faster and more powerful guns as well as completely new dangers such as flamethrowers and combat aircraft had caused the tools of war to evolve faster than the tactics military leaders had long employed."