rush light

British  

noun

1. a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow

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rush light

They had lit a rush light so that she saw what had happened in a flash, and immediately she began screaming at the top of her voice.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

After a time she sprang from the bed, lighted a candle at the rush light, and read John's letter in a tremor of dream-wrought fear.

From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major

There was only a rush light burning, but its faint beams showed him the soft white bed on which his darling lay sleeping.

From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill

There! there's that rush light gone out, and you never put any water in the tin; a pretty nurse you make, now I shall have that smell in my nose all night.

From Emilie the Peacemaker by Mrs. Thomas Geldart

Paul and Edward were in their raftered room, which was better lighted by the fire of logs than by the feeble rush light glimmering on the table.

From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Evelyn Everett-Green

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