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mop-stick en · NOUN
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(alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of mopstick.
Demn old mother Fortune, for throwing one of my birth and spirit into such a demnation situation; to be obliged to follow that lanky old mop-stick there before me, with a white mop-like top-not; […]
[c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Men Servants”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 24:In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.
1891, Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes, editors, History of Windsor County, Vermont, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., […], page 632:The clerks in the Ordnance Department at the Tower were sworn in as special constables, and were served out with batons cut out of old mop-sticks.
1895, John [Miller] Adye, “Days of Peace”, in Recollections of a Military Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 8:
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