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Definition of Rush candle
1. Noun. A tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rush Candle
Literary usage of Rush candle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its by Powys-land Club (1889)
"Figure 7 represents another, more modern, rush- candle- ... night- lights were
invented, for keeping with safety a rush- candle burning during the night. ..."
2. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1893)
"Where they met a narrow hole was formed in which the rush candle was placed, and
through which it could be passed upas it burned. ..."
3. Rush-bearing: an Account of the Old Custom of Strewing Rushes: An Account of by Alfred Burton (1891)
"Shakspeare alludes to the rush-candle : " Be it moon or sun, or what you please ;
And if you please to call it a rush-candle, Henceforth it shall be so to ..."
4. Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1884)
"The " rush candle," which, in times past, was found in nearly every house, and
served as a night-light for the rich and candle for the poor, is mentioned in ..."
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