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Definition of Mopsticks
1. mopstick [n] - See also: mopstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mopsticks
Literary usage of Mopsticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Their place, in the hands of our Volunteers might be supplied with mopsticks,
which would sufficiently well answer every purpose of ordinary drill ; and the ..."
2. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"But oh the aching of my ankles, when I went to bed that night; I was forced to
help myself upstairs with a couple of mopsticks! and I rubbed the joints with ..."
3. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1908)
"While waiting to procure regular arms, they bought up all the mopsticks in the
city and turned them into pikes with iron heads ; with these weapons they ..."
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