mopstick
English
Etymology
mop + stick
Noun
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,
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field
- (music, historical) In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.
References
mopstick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913