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Staple

noun

1.

(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant. Synonym: basic.

2.

A natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn. Synonyms: staple fiber, staple fibre.

3.

Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing. Synonym: raw material.

4.

A short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables.

5.

Paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together.

verb

(past & past part. stapled; pres. part. stapling)

1.

Secure or fasten with a staple or staples.

adjective

1.

Necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities.

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"Staple" Quotes from Famous Books

... course many, and their prices for stock were so good, and their speculations in land so profitable and bright, that they could afford the indulgence of a luxury, no matter what price was asked to purchase it. It is very different now. The staple commodity of this colony is wool. Well, so long as all the stations or sheep-runs continued unoccupied, and new settlers arrived, the price of sheep kept naturally very high; but every station that ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various

... Jones was walking down with me from Staple Inn to Clifford's Inn, about 10 o'clock, and we saw the Great Bear standing upright on the tip of his tail which was coming out of a chimney pot. Jones said it ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... Square. She allows the young men who cluster round her to suppose that she knows all about their lapses from strict propriety, and that she commends rather than condemns them. Causes celebres are to her a staple of conversation, her interest in them varying directly as ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 • Various

... the island as a poverty striken land inhabited by a turbulent and ignorant race whom she has with unrewarded solicitude sought to civilise, uplift and educate has been a staple of England's diplomatic trade since modern diplomacy began. To compel the trade of Ireland to be with herself alone; to cut off all direct communication between Europe and this second of European islands until no channel remained save ...

— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement

... however; Marco soon grew tired of it, and then began to look out the window. There was a little staple in the window sill, placed there as a means of fastening the blind. Marco pushed the point of his pencil into this staple, in order to see if it would go through. It did go through in an instant, and slipping through his fingers, it fell out ...

— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott

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