Mop
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- For the three-letter acronym, see MOP. "Mop" is also the NATO reporting name for Soviet versions of the PBY Catalina flying boat. For additional meanings, see Mops (disambiguation).
A mop is a tool for cleaning floors.
A wet mop typically has a long handle and a head made of thick, soft strands of water-absorbing fabric. To clean a floor, the mop is ed in a bucket of water or cleaning fluid and scrubbed against the surface. Some buckets include a wringer to strain excess water from the mop, so as not to saturate the floor. Mops are also often used to clean up liquid spills.
The inventor Thomas H. Stewart received a patent for a mop in 1893.
A dust mop or dry mop is designed to pick up dust. They tend to have much wider heads and shorter strands than wet mops.
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