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mop-stick

mop-stick is the archaic form of mopstick.

Meaning of mopstick

Noun

mopstick (plural mopsticks)

  1. The long handle of a mop.
    • THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick,1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field
  2. (historical) In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.

Forms of mop-stick

pluralmop-sticks

Questions about mop-stick

What is mop-stick the archaic form of?
Mop-stick is the archaic form of mopstick.

Words near mop-stick in the dictionary

  1. mop up
  2. mop up the ice
  3. mop water
  4. mop-and-flop
  5. mop-headed
  6. mop-stick
  7. mop-sticks
  8. mop-top
  9. mop-topped
  10. mop-tops
  11. mop-up

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