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bulrush: synonyms: rush ???

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Definition:

A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

Note: The name bulrush is applied in England especially to the cat- tail (Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia) and to the lake club-rush (Scirpus lacustris); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus or club-rush.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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He did not turn round. She ran after him, and, leaning over the water's edge between the bulrushes—

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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even in the earliest evenings of our boating, he and I should pull homeward abreast of one another, conversing from boat to boat, while Bentley Drummle came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among the rushes.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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I have a small writing table where I write to you, a lamp, and a stool. Some wonderful rush mats on the floor.

Alice Walker. The Color Purple (1982)

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FACE. By this good rush, persuade her,

She will cry strawberries else within this twelvemonth.

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)

^{*RUSH, reference to rushes with which the floors were then strewn.}