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MAULSTICK, or MAHLSTICK

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 904 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAULSTICK, or MAHLSTICK  , a stick with a soft leather or padded head, used by painters to support the hand that holds the brush . The word is an adaptation of the Dutch maalstok, i.e. the 'painter's stick, from malen, to paint .

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