Full record for torch v.

Definition	to move (a spaceship) using a torch drive
OED requirements	antedating 1956
Comment	Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Heinlein's "Double Star"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1956 original magazine appearance. Malcolm Farmer suggested Norman Spinrad's "Riding the Torch"; Mike Christie located a cite from a 1978 reprint. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 2001 reprint of Michael Flynn's 2000 "Lodestar" We would like cites of any date from other authors.
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1956 Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 29/2	About seventeen seconds and a gnat's wink after we make contact the Go For Broke will torch for Mars‥for we've got to be there by Wednesday.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin ii. 15	She was Little Peggy then, a girl of five, but she'd been torching for two years already, and in that time she never did a seeing on a birthing child who had so many paths to death.
1991 Omni Feb. 101/2	We've been ordered to torch the whole place.