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rushlights

rushlights is the plural of rushlight.

Meaning of rushlight

Noun

rushlight (plural rushlights)

  1. (historical) A type of inexpensive candle formed by soaking the dried pith of the rush plant in fat or grease, which emits light for a relatively short period of time.
    • The rushlight was her friend, and aided her to pass the long, long hours before midnight, for it was enclosed within its accustomed tin cage; […]1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 198–199

Questions about rushlights

What is rushlights the plural of?
Rushlights is the plural of rushlight.

Words near rushlights in the dictionary

  1. rushist
  2. rushists
  3. Rushkoff
  4. rushlight
  5. rushlighted
  6. rushlights
  7. rushlike
  8. rushlit
  9. Rushlow
  10. Rushlows
  11. Rushmere

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