mopstick

See also: mop stick and mop-stick

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

mop +‎ stick

Noun

mopstick (plural mopsticks)

  1. 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,
  2. (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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