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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOP , a . bunch of See also:

cloth, rags or coarse See also:yarn, fastened to a See also:pole and serving as a See also:broom or See also:brush for swabbing up wet floors or other surfaces and for cleaning generally. The word is usually taken to be an See also:adaptation of See also:Lat. mappa, cloth, napkin, cf. " See also:map." A particular application of the See also:term in provincial See also:English is to an See also:annual See also:hiring or See also:statute-See also:fair, a " mop-fair," at which domestic and agricultural servants out of places attended, carrying a broom, a mop or other See also:implement indicative of their calling.

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