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rushlight

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rush·light  (rshlt)
n.
A candle consisting of a rush wick in tallow. Also called rush candle.
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Noun1.rushlight - a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wickrushlight - a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
candle, wax light, taper - stick of wax with a wick in the middle


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After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
However the unconscious middle-aged lady came into that room, it was quite clear that she contemplated remaining there for the night; for she had brought a rushlight and shade with her, which, with praiseworthy precaution against fire, she had stationed in a basin on the floor, where it was glimmering away, like a gigantic lighthouse in a particularly small piece of water.
And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
 
 
 
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