"mop-stick" meaning in English

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      "form": "mop-sticks",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "mopstick"
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, John [Miller] Adye, “Days of Peace”, in Recollections of a Military Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 8",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "Archaic form of mopstick."
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    {
      "form": "mop-sticks",
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      "expansion": "mop-stick (plural mop-sticks)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "mopstick"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, John [Miller] Adye, “Days of Peace”, in Recollections of a Military Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 8",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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