"rushlight" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1901, Evelyn Everett-Green, In the Wars of the Roses",
          "text": "The nights were almost at their longest now, and the cold was very great; but the watchers piled fresh logs upon the fire, and talked quietly to each other as they sat in the dancing glow--for the rushlight had long since gone out.",
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          "candle",
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          "soaking",
          "soak#Verb"
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        [
          "dried",
          "dried"
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        [
          "pith",
          "pith"
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        [
          "rush",
          "rush#Noun"
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          "plant",
          "plant#Noun"
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          "fat",
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          "grease",
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        "(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."
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "type of inexpensive candle",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "geataire"
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "type of inexpensive candle",
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          "word": "cannwyll frwyn"
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