to mop (or scrub) a floor

Nollekens, finding his wife always benefited by these visits, never refused White a squeeze of a patera, or any thing that would answer his purpose; […] White […] had turned his wine-cellars into manufactories for the produce of cast coins, and moderns squeezes from Roman lamps.

What little life they could find was scrabbly. Some blades of grass fit enough to survive brought little cheer to the landscape.

to cry goods