mopstick

See also: mop stick and mop-stick

English

Alternative forms

• mop stick, (archaic) mop-stick

Etymology

From 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.