rush light

noun

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

Example Sentences

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 Literature

There is comfort, even in a farthing rush light—I felt warmer.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes the mind seemed to him a clean-swept place, the shades down and no fire lighted, and these young creatures, in their heavenly implication of doing everything for their own pleasure and not for his, would come in, pull up the shades with a rush, light the fire and sit down with their sewing and their quite as necessary laughter by the hearth.

From Project Gutenberg

Were I the proprietor I would assuredly have the room arranged exactly as in Phiz’s picture—the two old-fashioned four-posts with the dimity curtains, the rush light and shade on the floor, the old glass on the dressing-table. 

From Project Gutenberg

By the dim rush light we took and read it.

From Project Gutenberg