Mop-stick
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mop-stick is a noun meaning Archaic form of mopstick.
Meaning
Archaic form of mopstick.
Example Sentences
In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.
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.
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; […]
Word Forms
- mop-sticks
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