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a wizard's broom that swore an oath to suffer for your floors.
means a bundle of absorbent strings, sponge, or cloth fixed to a handle for soaking up and wiping liquid from floors.
from English from at least the 1400s, where it appeared as 'mappe' — likely related to the Latin 'mappa,' a napkin or cloth, the same root that gave us 'map' (originally a charted cloth) and 'napkin.' So the floor-scrubber and the world-chart are distant cousins, both born from a humble square of fabric.
- name origin
- From Latin mappa, meaning napkin or cloth.
- naval roots
- Sailors swabbed decks with rope-yarn mops for centuries.
- self-wringing
- The spin-mop bucket spins dirty water out by hand.
- hidden home
- Damp mop heads breed bacteria faster than toilet seats.
o-cedar easy wring — best-selling mop brand in us, over 2 million units sold annually
swiffer wetjet — disposable mop system by procter & gamble, launched 1999, dominant in fast-clean market
libman tornado — spin mop with wringer bucket, made in arcola illinois since 1921