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Staple :: Staple (n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.

Staple :: Staple (n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States..

Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.

Star :: Stapler (n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

Stapled :: Staple (a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

Carding :: Carding (a.) The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t..

Staple :: Staple (a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town..

Padlock :: Padlock (n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A small pit.

Staple :: Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..

Worsted :: Worsted (n.) Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like..

Kersey :: Kersey (n.) A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple..

Staple :: Staple (a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like..

Stapling :: stapled (imp. & p. p.) of Stapl.

Staple :: Staple (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

Staple :: Staple (n.) A district granted to an abbey.

Staple :: Staple (a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.

Stapler :: Staple (v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton..

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