mop-stick

See also: mop stick and mopstick

English

Noun

mop-stick (plural mop-sticks)

1. Archaic form of mopstick.
   • [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Men Servants”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 24:

     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; […]

   • 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:

     In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.

   • 1895, John [Miller] Adye, “Days of Peace”, in Recollections of a Military Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 8:

     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.