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▪ I. stapler1|ˈsteɪplə(r)|
Also 6 stapeler, stapuller.
[f. staple n.2 + -er1. Cf. med.L. stapulārius.]
1. (More fully merchant stapler.) A merchant of the Staple. (See quot. 1908.)
a1513Fabyan Chron. (1811) 465 In the whiche [parlyament]..was graunted, to the mayntenaunce of his warres, l. s. of a sak of woll, for the terme of .vi. yeres; but it contynued lenger, though the marchauntes staplers ther at grudgyd. Ibid. 652 Whan kyng Edwarde was thus stablysshed in this realme, great sute and labour was made to hym for the repayment of the foresayd. xviii. M. li. to hym and other dyleueryd by the stapelers. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 659 The Lordes borowed of the Marchantes of the Staple .xviij. thousand pound, the which money the Staplers did nowe sue for vnto King Edwarde to be repayed vnto them. 1585–6Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 398 Our staplers of late complayned for the burden layd uppon ther wares at Midleborough. 1601J. Wheeler Treat. Comm. 82 The Staplers Companie haue drawne the trade of English Wooll into their owne hands onely. 1607Middleton Fam. Love i. iii. 84 Yon merchants were wont to be merchant staplers. c1645Howell Lett. vi. iii. (1655) I. 242 They..so divided themselves (though they be now but one) to Staplers and Merchant-Adventurers. Ibid. lii. 298 The Staplers of Hamborough and Rotterdam. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. vii. (1739) 44 Nor doth it appear to me that the Staplers in these times used such a course, or were other than mere Officers for the regulating of the Staple. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 140 The staplers were merchants who had the monopoly of exporting the principal raw commodities of the realm. 1893Dict. Nat. Biogr. XXXIV. 425 McBride, John..was admitted a free stapler of Belfast on 8 April 1644. 1908H. O. Meredith Econom. Hist. Eng. 153 During the first half of the fifteenth century the Merchant Staplers were a powerful company, whose members lived either in English ports or in Calais, who directed the export trade of the country. 1912Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 811 This strengthens the hypothesis that the staplers and the adventurers sprang from a common root.
†b. A dealer in ‘staple-ware’. Obs.
1532–3in E. Law Hampton Crt. Pal. (1885) 347 Payd to Thomas Ostley, stapuller, for 18 ffother, 12 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lb. of leade to cover the Kynges New Hall. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 148 The staplers, who dealt in certain raw materials.
2. A trader who buys wool from the grower to sell to the manufacturer: = woolstapler.
a1552Leland Itin. (1769) IV. 113 Norton is a pretty uplandish Towne in Worcestershire, and there be fayre Houses in it of Staplers, that use to buy Wooll. 1600Holland Livy, Topogr. Rome 1376 æquimelium is betweene Velabrum and the Capitoll, neere to the staplers wooll shops. 1667O. Heywood Heart Treas. ii. 9 Every Trades-man lays up that which is fit for his Calling; Cloathiers, Staplers, Tanners, Husbandmen, have all their peculiar provisions, suited to their vocations. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4341/4 George Wagstaffe, of Glossop.., Stapler. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 133 If the opinion of the staplers be correct, the sheep in extreme old age appears to lose the faculty of producing a valuable wool. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. iii. vi. (1876) 367 The Leeds manufacturer, who purchases wool from the stapler, pays for it by a cheque. 1881Daily News 29 Aug. 3/6 Spinners buy with hesitation and caution... Staplers, however, maintain quotations with a tolerable degree of firmness. 1885F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Gloss., Stapler, a merchant who buys wool from the farmer and sorts it into its various qualities for the manufacturer.
▪ II. stapler2|ˈsteɪplə(r)|
[f. staple n.1 2 d + -er1.]
A device for fastening together papers, etc., with a staple or staples.
1951Catal. of Exhibits, South Bank Exhib., Festival of Britain 64 Office equipment..‘Velos’ plier stapler. 1969‘C. Keith’ Missing Book-Keeper iv. 48 The shallow centre drawer..contained..some extra staples for the stapler on top of the desk. 1973Sci. Amer. July 113/2 Edges of the foil can be fastened together with tape or with a stapler. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Advt. Suppl.) 1/4 Full-size standard stapler with open-channel loading. |