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Definition of Rushlights
1. rushlight [n] - See also: rushlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushlights
Literary usage of Rushlights
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)
"Utensil for making rushlights or Rush-Candles. ... It was formerly used in Wales
for melting tat or grease with which rushlights and rush-candles were made. ..."
2. The Complete Preacher: Sermons Preached by Some of the Most Prominent by Isaac Kaufman Funk (1895)
"What if, beholding these rushlights, thus carried across a continent by ...
But what if, when a tempest sprung out of the south, and these rushlights were, ..."
3. Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony by James Otis (1910)
"CANDLES OR rushlights To provide lights for ourselves, now that the evenings were
grown longer, was a much more difficult task than to cook without proper ..."
4. The Musical World (1870)
"So eager is the desire to have a place among illuminators that many mistaken
folks are sticking up their farthing rushlights on every little eminence, ..."
5. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1887)
"The quality too of this artificial light was very low. rushlights were the
commonest form of candle, ... Such rushlights were often made by the household. ..."
6. American Notes and Queries edited by William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris (1890)
"We often read of rushlights, but seldom see them, if ever. An ingenious lady of
my acquaintance made some rushlights on the following plan : Large rushes ..."
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