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Rushen may refer to:
- The parish of the same name in the Isle of Man
- The House of Keys constituency of Rushen, of which the parish forms part
- The sheading (administrative division) of the same name, of which the parish and constituency form part
Rushen may also refer to:
- Castle Rushen, a mediaeval castle in Castletown in the south of the Isle of Man
- Rushen Abbey, a former abbey near Ballasalla in the south of the Isle of Man
- Rushen Coatie, a Scottish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his More English Fairy Tales
-
, a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy
- Patrice Rushen, American R&B singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist
Usage examples of "rushen".
Now it was in the cool of the evening two days after the Battle on the Ridge, that the men, both freemen and thralls, had been disporting themselves in the plain ground without the Burg in casting the spear and putting the stone, and running races a-foot and ahorseback, and now close on sunset three young men, two of the Laxings and one of the Shieldings, and a grey old thrall of that same House, were shooting a match with the bow, driving their shafts at a rushen roundel hung on a pole which the old thrall had dight.
Now it was in the cool of the evening two days after the Battle on the Ridge, that the men, both freemen and thralls, had been disporting themselves in the plain ground without the Burg in casting the spear and putting the stone, and running races a-foot and ahorseback, and now close on sunset three young men, two of the Laxings and one of the Shieldings, and a grey old thrall of that same House, were shooting a match with the bow, driving their shafts at a rushen roundel hung on a pole which the old thrall had dight.