mopstick
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
mopstick (plural mopsticks)
- The long handle of a mop.
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:
- THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick,
- (music, historical) In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.
References edit
“mopstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.