Rushlit

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  • rushlight: a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person
  • rushlight: (slang) liquor (Note: this annotation is in the first two editions of Roland McHugh's Annotations to Finnegans Wake but not in the third edition; it may be a mistake)
  • rush-lit: illuminated by rushlights
  • burning bush → Exodus 3
  • resh = head, beginning (Hebrew)