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rushlight

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ghhilrstuStarts with REnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick

Word origin

From rush + light.

Used in a sentence

  • 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; […]
  • As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.

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