单词 | staple |
释义 | staplen.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [noun] staplec950 pillarc1180 stoop1439 stape1512 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 12 Staplas [glosses columbas mistaken for columnas]. OE Andreas (1932) 1062 Oððæt he gemette be mearcpaðe standan stræte neah stapul ærenne. OE Beowulf 2718 Ða stanbogan stapulum fæste. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 205/5 Cione, stapole. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 273 But Edol, duke of Gloucestre, cauȝte a stable, [L. arrepto palo: v.rr. pale, stake] and defended hym manliche. a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 201 Leues thai tok, sextene, Of iuy..Under ech stapel of his bed..four thai hid. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8288 Vnder þis tre..A stapul was o marbul grai. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > superstructure above a roof > steeple steeple1154 staple1470 steeplet1891 1470–1 in Oxf. Stud. Soc. & Legal Hist. (1914) IV. 225 In Bylddyng of..the Chyrche Stapill in the Town of Latton. c. Mining. A pillar of coal left as a temporary support for a superincumbent mass. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > pillar or area of unworked material forbar?15.. pillar1591 whole1728 stalch1747 post1793 stenting1812 rib1818 stook1826 man-of-war1835 spurn1837 staple1839 barrier1849 shaft pillar1855 barrier-pillar1881 stoop1881 stump1881 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 979 As a further precaution staples of coal, about 10 inches square, are left. 2. a. A short rod or bar of iron or other metal bent into the form of a U or of three sides of a rectangle, and pointed at the ends, to be driven into a post, plank, wall, or other surface, in order to serve as a hold for a hasp, hook, or bolt to secure a door or box, or as an attachment for a rope or the like. Also applied to other contrivances of similar shape or function, as the box or case into which the bolt of a lock is shot.Also by hasp and staple at hasp n. Phrases (Law). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > staple staple1295 society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > bolt > box receiving bolt staplea1616 nosing1859 nab1875 striking-box1896 1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/8 m. 10 Et .ij. s. ix. d. in stipendiis Hugonis Fabri pro stapples et hespes fabricandis. c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 467 Et graps et appenduz Stapul and haspe. c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 471 Sere veroil et cerrure Barre slot and stapul. 1344–5 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 492/24 Facientis unum haspe et unum stapel pro hostio stabuli. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2181 Þe henges boþe barste & þe stapel þar-with out sprong. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1081 Of ilka bild,..barred was þe ȝatis, Stoken stifly with-out with staplis & cheynes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 472/2 Stapylle of a schyttynge [v.r. stapul], stapellum. 1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 231 A newe staple of iren to þe same yeate. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 150 Staples & clampes of yron ffor a carte. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12 §3 The Sergeant..shall bringe to the saide place of execucion a blocke withe a betill a staple and cordes to bynde the saide hande vpon the blocke. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 47 Men alyve have sene Rynges and Staples yn the Walles, as yt had bene Stayes or Holdes for Shyppes. 1560 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 96 A stapulle and a haspe for the..chest. 1597 in Spalding Club Misc. I. Pref. 53 Joggis, Stepillis, and Lockis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (1623) Prol. 17 With massie Staples And corresponsiue and fulfilling Bolts. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 Grummets and staples for all yeards. 1643 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 41 Staples of Gold were fastned in every planke. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem 14 A small Iron nut,..which is fastened by two staples..to the under side of the board. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 You must with square Staples, just fit to contain the Bolt with an easie play, fasten these staples by rivetting them with the Bolt within them..to the Main-plate. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 462/1 The Crown Stable, that to which the Clapper [of the Bell] is hung. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iv. v. 309/2 A demy Ape..holding a stable by the tanges with both his hands, Sable. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 46 Her Rudder-Irons Stirrups, Staples, etc. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxi. 48 The bolt..Forsakes the staple as she pulls the ring. 1748 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 714 Cork'd, with a Staple of small Wire running through each Cork into the Water. 1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi i. 6 His limbs..were fixed by immense staples to the flinty floor. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 152 Staples, crooked fastenings made of copper, from 6 to 12 inches long, with a jagged hook at each end. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvi. 281 Fastening the old bridle..to an iron staple in the wall. 1884 Manch. Examiner 6 Oct. 5/4 The deceased was drawing the staples by which the ladders were held. 1898 M. Hewlett Forest Lovers xxx A girdle made of bright steel in which was a staple. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > suit of armour > clasp or fastening haspc1300 staplea1420 a1420 Aunturs of Arthur (Douce) 591 Stiþe stapeles [v.r. stapuls] of stele þey strike done seiȝte. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 382 Thair freikis fell with mony forcie flap, Quhill ruvis raif and steill stapillis out lap. c. A snout-ring. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > nose-ring ringa1398 staple1688 nose-ring1778 bullring1850 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > nose-ring hog ring1648 staple1688 staple-ring1707 nose-jewel1844 pig ring1862 snout-ring1875 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 181/2 Rings, or Staples to put into their [swine's] Noses to keep them from Rooting. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Snout-ring, a ring or staple placed in the nose of a hog to deter him from rooting. d. A piece of thin wire (characteristically shaped in the form of three sides of a rectangle), driven through papers, etc., and clinched to bind them. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > staple > for binding papers staple1895 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 540/2 Patent Staple Presses (For Fastening Papers &c.)..Wire Staples. Size ¼ inch, per 1000 0/6. 1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Mar. (1972) II. 11 Come along & bring some long staples (5/ 8″ will do) with you. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 349/1 The Self-Feeding Automatic Staple Press. Holds 25 staples which travel automatically. Staples are in strips of 25, as shown in illustration. 1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 369/3 The ‘Longdon’ Combined Stapler..only one staple can pass at a time. 1940 Brit. Stationer Ann. 2 (advt.) Ace Stapling Machines..Staples: ¼ in...7/2 per box of 5,000. 1967 New Yorker 15 July 26/3 I..dropped into a stationery store..looking for a mechanism of sorts with which to run a staple into my thumb. 1981 H. Engel Ransom Game (1982) iii. 21 I wondered how could I possibly discuss anything with a man who called staples Bostitch pins. 3. a. The upright body of a hand printing press. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > body of hand-press staple1833 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 208 A is the upright body of the press, called the staple. b. Music. A metal tube on to which the double reed of a wind instrument is tied. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > associated parts fipple1626 wind-way1875 staple1880 pirouette1891 plaque1940 windcap1940 tongue1953 scrape1954 reed-cap1960 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 486/2 It [sc. the oboe] is usually made in three pieces, a top, bottom, and bell joints, to which is added a short metal tube, the staple, on which the reed..is attached by means of silk. 1908 G. Grove Dict. Music (ed. 2) IV. 42/2 The bassoon reed is placed directly upon the ‘crook’ of the instrument, but the oboe reed is built up upon a small tube or ‘staple’. 1953 E. Rothwell Oboe Technique 49 The part of the cane from the tip downwards which has been scraped and thinned with the knife after tying the cane on the staple, is known as the ‘scrape’ (or sometimes as the ‘lay’). 1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance i. 8/4 The [shawm] player presses his lips against a metal disc at the base of the staple, taking the entire reed inside his mouth. 1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance vi. 39/3 (caption) Set of modern rackett reeds mounted on their staples. Compounds C1. General attributive. (In sense 2.) a. staple-driver n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > tool for driving in staples staple-drivera1884 staple press1895 stapler1951 staple gun1960 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 852/2 Staple~driver, an instrument for driving the staples in window~blinds. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 116/3 Staple Driver, for binding books, papers, pamphlets, etc...staple is placed in holder, driven to place. staple-fastener n. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 853/1 Staple Fastener, a spring punch for driving and clinching a staple against an anvil block beneath. staple-pin n. ΚΠ 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 145 It has a staple pin at its inner end. staple-punch n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2309/1 The staple-punch has two points, and is used to prick blind-rods and slats for the reception of the staples which connect them. b. staple-headed adj. ΚΠ 1819 T. D. Fosbroke Orig. Hist. Gloucester 119 Massy round Columns, with staple-headed arches. staple-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. §258. 275 An intercostal staple-shaped angle-iron. C2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar shuttle971 barc1175 esselc1275 slota1300 sperel13.. ginc1330 staple-bar1339 shotc1430 shuttingc1440 shutc1460 spar1596 counter-bar1611 shooter1632 drawbar1670 night bolt1775 drop-bolt1786 snibbing-bolt1844 stay-band1844 window bar1853 heck-stower1876 barrel bolt1909 latch bolt1909 panic bolt1911 1339–40 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 96 Item solut. Johanni Amyot pro stapolbarris fabricandis de iiijxx peciis ferri Dni. pro pec. iijd. £1. 0s. 3d. 1399 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 473/11 m. 3 Pro .viij. Soudletles .ij Stapulbarres pro fenestris eiusdem noue domus. staple-fashion adv. ΚΠ 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding ii. 42 The angle-irons on the upper edge are forged staple fashion. staple gun n. a hand-held device for driving staples home; hence (hyphenated) as v. transitive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools strike1340 hammerc1430 maul?1440 riveta1450 calla1522 peena1522 peck1533 mallet1594 beetle1608 pickaxe1800 sledge1816 sledgehammer1834 tack-hammer1865 pin1875 pile-drive1894 staple gun1960 society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > tool for driving in staples staple-drivera1884 staple press1895 stapler1951 staple gun1960 1960 G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 350 A staple gun can be useful, but is not essential. 1975 Harpers & Queen May 128/3 Looks like some faggot decorator went nuts in here with a staple gun. 1977 ‘J. Fraser’ Hearts Ease in Death ix. 107 The heavy squad..had staple-gunned plastic sheets to cover the hole. staple isinglass n. isinglass in staple-shaped pieces. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > from animals gold skin1507 mouth gluec1540 water glue1542 isinglass1545 gold-beater's skin1710 sea-glass1753 book1765 bone1812 mist1852 staple isinglass1879 mist1896 mis1958 1879 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Products Sea 243 Isinglass..drawn out in a serpentine manner into the form of a heart, horseshoe, or lyre (long and short staple) between three pegs. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 355/1 The isinglass comes into commerce under the names of..‘staple’, ‘book’, ‘pipe’,..and other designations, according to its form. staple-knee n. Nautical (see quot. 1846). ΚΠ 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 295 Standard-knees... These..are also called Staple-knees, or Staple-lodging knees. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > tool for driving in staples staple-drivera1884 staple press1895 stapler1951 staple gun1960 1895 [see sense 2d]. 1907 [see sense 2d]. staple-ring n. = sense 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > nose-ring hog ring1648 staple1688 staple-ring1707 nose-jewel1844 pig ring1862 snout-ring1875 1707 London Gaz. No. 4377/4 A black Mare.., wring'd with a staple Ring. staple-vice n. a bench-vice. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp > vice > types of wresting-vice1609 hand vice1611 bench screw1678 bench vice1688 screw dog1855 pin vice1868 taper-vice1877 staple-vice1881 vice grip1915 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §280 The best black staple vices are sold, according to weight, at 7d per lb. 1915 N.E.D. at Staple Mod. Tool-maker's Price-list, Vices. Staple Leg Vices. staple-wise adv. ΚΠ 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges 275 Make it sharpe at both ends, and bow it staple-wise with two corners nigh an inch wide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). staplen.2 1. a. A town or place, appointed by royal authority, in which was a body of merchants having the exclusive right of purchase of certain classes of goods destined for export; also, the body of merchants so privileged. Now historical.The English word has not been found earlier than 1423; the Anglo-Norman estaple and the Anglo-Latin stapula, however, occur in statutes and official documents from the reign of Edw. II onwards, and these contain evidence that the institution of the staple was of older date. Each staple had a mayor and constables, appointed by the king, and in early times distinct from the municipal authorities, though latterly the mayor of some boroughs was ex officio mayor of the staple. At various times the chief staple was oversea, usually at Bruges or Calais; from about 1390 to 1558 it was at Calais, which is often called ‘The Staple’. There were also staples in many important towns of England, Wales, and Ireland, the list of which varied greatly at different periods. See also statute of the staple n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > group or body of > specific Hanse1199 staple1423 the feat of merchandisec1503 corporation1530 Stilliardois1552 the Steads1557 galley-man1581 hong1769 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [adjective] > town trading specific merchandise staple1423 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > trading town > for specific merchandise > with exclusive rights staple1423 1423 Rolls of Parl. IV. 249/1 They may bey Wolle..atte the Stapull of Calais. 1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 359/2 And yat ye Maire of ye Staple for the tyme beyng, have power..to make due serch. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 189/1 Nygh to oure Staple there [i.e. the Palace at Westminster]. c1450 Brut ccxxix. 305 In þe same ȝere þe Kyng reuoked..þe staple of wolles out of Flaundres into Engelond. 1473 Ld. Hastings in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 410 To the Mayre, Lieutenant, and felaship of the Staple. 1480 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 33 George Cely merchand of the estapell at Calleys. 1481 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 63 Merchant of the estaple. ?1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 130 Bryn[g]yng my ij oblygacyons of the Stapyll to Cales. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xx. 18 The kyng..gaue hym an hundred marke sterlynge, yerely to be payed out of the Staple of the wolles in London. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 115 The caryage out of wolle to the stapul ys a grete hurte to the pepul of englond. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxj Ther [in Ghent], was the staple of woolles, tynne, leade and other marchaundise. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 169 In the .xix. yere of this king, the staple of woolles was kept at Sandwiche, which afterwarde was kept at Caleys as long as it was Englishe, but now it is holden at Bridges in Flaunders. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 519/2 He had borrowed a great summe of money of the Marchants of the Staple. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1771/1 Edmonde Hall one of the Conestables of the Staple. 1599 J. Robinson Will 12 July in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1912) II. 185 The worshipfull companie of marchauntes of the staple of Englande. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 540 The Staple, as they tearme it, that is, the Mart, of Wooll, Leather, Lead &c. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 196 You ayme at no Monopoly, No priuate staples, but desire to sell,..Your Ware in publique places. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 50 This City is the Staple of all Merchandise, excepting Rhenish wine, for which by old priviledge Dorte is the Staple. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 110 Hodie 2 vice lecta Billa for the merchantes of the Staple. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year 165 By weight and measure of the staple. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 411 The system of the staple was..a combination of the principle of the guild and of the royal privilege of establishing fairs and markets. 1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 144 It is evident that the staple was primarily a fiscal organ of the crown, facilitating the collection of the royal customs. It also ensured the quality of the goods exported by providing a machinery for viewing and marking them. b. †(a) A town or country which is the principal market or entrepôt for some particular class of merchandise (obsolete). (b) A commercial centre, a chief place of business in a country or district. (Now somewhat archaic.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] staple1436 estaple1550 emporium?1575 empory1600 monopole1602 mart1611 scale1613 market1615 mkt.1896 society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > town or country which is principal market staple1436 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > trading town > for specific merchandise staple1436 1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 Saffron, quiksilver..Is into Flaundres shypped fulle craftylye, Unto Bruges, as to here staple fayre. 1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 162 The lytelle londe of Flaundres is But a staple to other londes..And alle that groweth in Flaundres..May not a moneth ffynde hem mete of brede. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aviv There groeth muche peper & the properest stapell therof. That kyngdom Colen is .xxiiij. myles from there. 1612 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) Apr. 251 In time this Kingdom will become the staple of those easterne commodities, from whence they may be dispersed into France, Germaine, [etc.] 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 224 They enjoy also Malaca, which..is..the staple of the Traffique..of the East Ocean. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. i. 2 The Spaniards notwithstanding they are the Masters of the Staple of Jewels, stood astonish'd at the beuty of these. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 315 God intended not Ierusalem for a staple of trade, but for a Royall Exchange of Religion. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. i. 117 Novgorod..was comprehended in the League of the Hans-Towns, and was the Staple of the inferior Towns. 1737 G. Smith Curious Relations I. i. 81 The rest is sold to the People or Merchants at Ucienjen, this being the greatest Staple for Porcelain in all China. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 380 That the city of Nisibis might be established for the place of mutual exchange, or, as we should formerly have termed it, for the staple of trade, between the two empires. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xii. 202 The position..was well adapted for a great staple of commerce between the Thracian tribes..and the Greek cities. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) iii. 10 Its seaports..were the staples of an opulent and widely extended Commerce. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. v. 220 Old Nürnberg..Trading Staple of the German world in old days. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. v. sig. D3 A tauerne is the Randeuous, the Exchange, the staple for good fellowes. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 62 There is a Trade driven, a Staple established betweene Heaven and earth;..Thither have we sent our flesh, and hither hath he sent his Spirit. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. ii. 22 in Wks. II Tho. O Sir, a staple of newes! Or the New Staple, which you please. P. Iu. What's that? Fas. An..Office set vp... P. Iu. For what? Tho. To enter all the Newes, Sir, o' the time. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. iv. 10 This Citie of Amsterdam, though she be a great Staple of news, yet I can impart none unto you at this time. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 9 That Country which hath been the Staple of Truth to all Christendome. 1699 T. Cockman tr. Cicero Offices iii. ii. 235 Since you are gone as it were to a Staple and Mart of good Literature. a1718 M. Prior Eng. Padlock 62 A Staple of Romance and Lies. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 366 Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place authorized for foreign merchants factory1582 staple1617 emporium1727 treaty-port1863 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 61 Meluin is a little and faire City,..and at this time grew rich by the English Merchants having their staple in the same. 1634 W. Haig Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 468 Mr. John Forbes, a minister..of the English that are about their staple in that place. 1668 W. Temple Lett. (1699) i. 8 Attempts of removing the Scotch Staple from Teweet to Dort. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 25 The English Factory..being under the Tutelage of the Natives, as also are the Portugals and Flemmings (who each have here their Staples). 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 410 This original factory and staple of the German merchants, vulgarly called ‘The Steelyard’ (Stahlhof), still stands on the banks of the Thames. 1892 R. W. Cochran-Patrick Mediæval Scotl. vii. 133 The establishment of the Scottish staple at Middleburgh in 1347 was followed by more cordial relations between Scotland and England. a. A dépôt or storehouse for provisions, war material, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored aumbry1356 promptuary?a1425 repository1485 staple1523 magazine1583 reposement1592 repertory1593 rendezvous1608 reserve1612 conservatory1624 reconditory1633 dormerc1640 stowagea1641 depositum1646 repositary1650 magazine storehousea1654 deposit1719 reservoir1739 battery1748 depository1750 storage1775 depot1795 depositary1797 repertorium1797 rua1831 stowaway1913 1523 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 171 The Kinges Grace hathe prepared the power of the north parties to a great nomber, whiche..may..either invade or defende, as they shal be commaunded, and vitailles ordred in staples for that purpose. 1552 King Edward VI Jrnl. Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 421 Duke Maurice toke..50 peces of ordinaunce, which he conveyed to Auspurg, for that toune he fortefied and made it his staple of provision. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 202/1 There must be choise made of some place, Citty or Towne, to make the Staple of Ammunition. b. A stock, quantity of provisions or material stored up. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store store1487 store1520 reserving1530 staple1549 forestore1556 conserve1586 budget1597 magazine1615 stock1638 stowaway1913 dump1915 bank1918 stockpile1942 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 75 Hauyng suche a staple of tymber (whiche in the water within Th'arsenale hath lien a seasonyng, some .20. yere, some .40. some an .100. and some I wote not how longe). 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 165/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II That a storehouse be prouided alwais in the towne for a staple of vittels to be kept there at all times. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 118 In their Arsenal they continually maintaine two hundred gallies, and such a staple of timber, that for every day in the yeare, they are able to builde a newe galley. 3. [Short for staple-ware, etc. (see Compounds 2), and elliptical use of staple adj.] A staple commodity. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods which were monopoly of staple staple-hand1364 staple-ware1432 staple-good1455 staple1690 staple-merchandise1721 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade viii. 133 Except such Species only as his Majesty & the Parliament shall think fit to make Staples, as suppose Colchester Bayes, Perpetuanoes, Cheanyes..to be allowed the honour of a publick Seal, by which to be bought and sold here, and beyond Seas, as if it were upon the publick Faith of England. b. A principal industrial product of a country, town, or district; occasionally the commodity principally dealt in by a person or class of persons. Also, the principal or basic food on which a community lives. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > principal article of trade staple1616 leading article1817 brand leader1967 the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > plain or ordinary food breadlOE bread and cheesea1556 staple1970 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 10 The maine Staple..is fish. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 7 Corne, Wine, and Salt, her three rich staples doe so abound in her. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 143 Linen is out Staple, &c. but it has been wofully neglected. 1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 167/2 Mr. Pitt introduced it [sc. the subject] by observing, that tobacco was now to be considered as the smuggler's staple. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Lanarkshire The manufacture of cotton..has long been the staple of this county. 1834 H. Martineau Demerara (new ed.) iii. 42 Sugar is our staple and sugar we must grow. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 151 Villages..built by some speculative timber merchant, who found his staple was quite a drug in the market. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vii. ii. 239 The sugar-cane..formed a more desirable staple for the colony than its precious metals. 1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 818/1 Barley is always a staple, and averages twenty bushels to the acre. 1883 Stubbs' Merc. Circular 8 Nov. 982/2 Grey shirtings show a falling-off..and..it is to be feared that the trade in this once flourishing staple will continue to decrease. 1912 Times 19 Dec. 19/2 Good returns should also be obtained from the cultivation of maize (which was the staple of Rhodesia). 1970 C. Furtado in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. ii. 33 In the case of exported staples, there occasionally appeared competitive productive areas which were better situated geographically or which had access to protected markets. 1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 113/1 Except for the staples and tea, tobacco and candy, there is no strong desire for non-Eskimo foods. 1971 Sci. Amer. Oct. 21/1 It is only recently that human populations have come to depend heavily on a single cultivated plant staple for food. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 16/1 Much of this inflation can be attributed to a rise in the world price of oil and food staples. c. transferred and figurative. The thing chiefly ‘dealt in’; the principal object of employment, thought, or discourse. Sometimes (? with mixture of staple n.3 2) used for: The chief component element, the ‘substance’, ‘bulk’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > part headeOE main1481 chiefty1552 main1567 principality1567 heart1584 the main of alla1591 main1595 masterpiece1612 stress1633 staple1826 node1860 staff and staple1869 meat1886 crux1888 business end1890 spear-head1929 1826 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 74/1 An unconquerable aversion to..that train of meteorological questions and answers which forms the great staple of polite English conversation. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 204 The poultry..may perhaps be considered to have formed the staple of the entertainment. 1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xviii. 185 Conversation was the great staple there. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. x. 616 Events of this sort, though neglected by ordinary historians, are among the staff and staple of history. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iv. 63 It may be said that action,..forms the staple of that part of the gesture-language. 1907 C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West v. 100 These staples were everywhere supplemented by the flesh of other animals which varied with the habitat. Compounds C1. General attributive. (Cf. staple adj.) ‘of or pertaining to the Staple’ (sense 1). a. staple-court n. ΚΠ 1433–4 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 296 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 In defraude of the courte..of Watirforde, or of the staple courte of the Kynge. 1574 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 335 The Sergeants may arrest anny challendged in the Staple-court. staple-register n. ΚΠ 1483–4 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 147 Thys entercourse ys entryd in the stappull Regester of old tyme. staple-roll n. ΚΠ 1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 144 The Staple Rolls in the Record Office. staple seal n. ΚΠ 1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 114 Ther shall be made vj oblijgaschons under the stapell seal. b. ‘That is a staple’ (senses 1a, 1b). staple place n. ΚΠ 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 322 Indeed Tyre,..was the staple place, which furnished it with fish. 1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 228/2 Coblenz..forms the natural staple place of the Rhine and Moselle wines. staple port n. ΚΠ 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. vi. 53 It [Aden] continued many Years after the Stapple Port for the Red Sea Commerce. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 378 The Staple-Port for Merchandize of the East. staple town n. ΚΠ 1617 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 355 The matter of makinge this towne a staple towne. 1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws (1758) II. xxi. xi. 51 The barbarians obliged the Romans to establish staple-towns. 1908 Athenæum 14 Nov. 610/3 The Statute of the Staple, 1353,..established a number of Staple towns where the wools, &c., were to be weighed and sealed, the duty paid [etc.]. C2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods which were monopoly of staple staple-hand1364 staple-ware1432 staple-good1455 staple1690 staple-merchandise1721 1455 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 80 Ony merchandice that is staple gude. 1482 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 46 That na maner of stapill gudis of strangearis remane..langare in Leyth..than it may be cartit and brocht to the toun. 1593 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 797/2 Cum libertate..de lie paking, peilling, loising or laidning be sey of stapill guddis or wairis. 1811 P. Kelly Universal Cambist II. 310 Staple goods, such as are sold at a staple. The term is however mostly aplied to goods that are not of a perishable nature, as wool, lead, &c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods which were monopoly of staple staple-hand1364 staple-ware1432 staple-good1455 staple1690 staple-merchandise1721 1364 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) II. 380 Ane Inchibitioun for halding off mercats of Stapillhand at Brechine and Fordoune. staple-house n. a warehouse where commodities chargeable with export duties were stored. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse > warehouse > bonded bonded warehouse1846 bonded store1851 bonding-house1863 staple-house1876 1876 F. Martin Hist. Lloyd's i. 2 In their large staple-house on the Thames..were stored the collections of raw produce..which England sent away to foreign countries. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods which were monopoly of staple staple-hand1364 staple-ware1432 staple-good1455 staple1690 staple-merchandise1721 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. 259 Paying no more..than for so much Goods of Staple Merchandize as they shall..transport unto the Staple of Calais. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > artificially arranged prices staple ratea1628 sheriff fiars1689 fiars1723 pool price1872 parity1941 support price1943 shadow-price1965 trigger price1978 a1628 F. Greville Cælica lxxviii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 225 So States proue sicke, where toyes beare Staple-rates. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] > organized trade staple-traffica1618 a1618 J. Sylvester All's not Gold xii, in Wks. (1880) II. 254 That Ignatian-Latian Colledge, Where..They study State and Stratagems; Making a Staple-Trafick of it..To murther Kings, and mangle Realms. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods which were monopoly of staple staple-hand1364 staple-ware1432 staple-good1455 staple1690 staple-merchandise1721 1432 Rolls of Parl. IV. 417/2 Grete substaunce of marchaundises, nat Staple ware, but other. 1587 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 237 To transporte thair guidis and staple wairis to uthuris townis. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxxi. 306/1 King James..incorporated himself into the Clothworkers: as Men dealing in the Principal and Noblest Staple Wares of all these Islands, viz. Woollen Cloths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). staplen.3 1. a. The fibre of any particular variety or sample of wool (in later use also of cotton, flax, or other material for textile processes) considered with regard to its length and fineness; a particular length and degree of fineness in the fibre of wool, cotton, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [noun] > fibre of staple1481 fibre1827 microfibre1966 modal1977 1481 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 66 They causyd me to kep hyt [your new wool] iiij or v dayes and then the sayd the staple therof was to schoorte. c1580 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) July 523 Theyr woolles beinge of so course a staple that it will not ronne in threde unles they mingle our woolles withall. 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 200 Ye must see that ye buy no Ram nor other Sheepe that hath a thin staple, or small store of wooll. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlviii. 227 The wooll of Apulia is of a short staple, and specially in request for cloakes and mantles, and nothing else. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iv. 9 Lemster Ore merits the preheminence (though it be short) for a purely-fine, soft and crisped Staple. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 11 To cutte of all the shaggie hairy wolle..by which meanes they make them seeme more snodde and of a better stapple. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 79 The qualities..of the best Toe..are that the Staple be long, small, tough, and white. 1754 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 128 An Engine..which will..lay the Harle or Staple of the Wool more straight and close than any Yarn yet produced. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 389 Some difficulty might be expected to occur in adapting the rollers to different staples. 1861 Times 27 Sept. That straight staple and open fleece which the Lincoln long-wool grazier avoids. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 261/2 The staple of mohair is from five to six inches long. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 180 It is essential to the character of a good wool, that there should be an evenness of staple. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 323 The fibre from which these nets are made has a long staple. b. A lock of wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > tuft or lock of washlock1604 shag1607 staple1805 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 134 In such coats the..staples separate easily from each other, and the wool dies in the bowl. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 15 This can be done..by pulling a staple out of the fleece. If it be a wether, the staple will come clean out without interfering to any extent with the surrounding staples; but if it be a hog, some of the fibres of the other staples will adhere to the bottom of the one being pulled. 1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre Gloss. Staple, the lock of wool or hair which is formed by the aggregation of fibres in the fleece. c. Unmanufactured wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > unmanufactured staple1885 1885 Wool Trade Circular Jan. The situation as regards cross-bred staple has proved somewhat exceptional. 1897 Wool Trade Circular Jan. Though crossbreds were somewhat neglected, prices for merino staple rose 7½ per cent. 1897 Wool Trade Circular Jan. All grades of staple fell 10 per cent. in value. 2. The fibre of which a thread or a textile fabric is composed. Hence gen. the material of which anything is made. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > [noun] stuffc1440 materialc1475 material1509 graith1513 subject matter1535 metalc1550 staple1598 tew1616 subjected matter1645 materiable1652 matter1680 ingredient1691 vehicle1837 input1893 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > staple of staple1598 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > fibre of staple1756 cupro1957 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 17 He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, finer then the staple of his argument. View more context for this quotation 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants Ep. Ded. 2 The Staple of the Stuff is so exquisitely fine, that no Silk-worm is able to draw any thing near so small a Thred. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 208 The substance [sc. a kind of paper]..appears to be of a coarser grain, a shorter staple, and of a much looser texture. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 644 Producing a good paper in appearance, from an inferior staple. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 206 Even when the injury occurring to the staple of the thread is less apparent. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xxii. 530 Lucilius himself could not refrain from interweaving Greek words with the homely staple of his Latin style. 1859 R. C. Trench Hulsean Lect. 1845–6 (ed. 4) 36 The..stapleout of which its whole web is woven. 1882 A. Edwardes Ballroom Repent. I. 227 The coaching that teaches you how to find staple for conversation out of the slightest materials. 3. The stratum of vegetable mould overlying the rock; a particular depth or quality of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > mould > layer garden mould1573 garden earth1577 staplea1722 staple-soil1847 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 70 A shallow grete or staple. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 263 The tops of such grass will be coarse and sour, as running to a length beyond what the staple of the ground can well carry. 1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 265 The general objection of farmers against ploughing up the dead earth, or going beyond what is called the staple; that is, that body of dark-coloured mould, which seems to be in part formed of rotten vegetables and animal substances. 1793 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Sussex 10 Advancing down the hills, the soil becomes of a deeper staple. 1802 R. Brookes Gen. Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Rutlandshire The e and se parts are of a shallow staple upon limestone rock. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 29 The country through Ashton..consists of a brown tender mould of a good staple on a Dunstone rubble. 1861 Times 11 July In a clover-ley field, where plenty of stone showed itself at 6 inches or 7 inches depth, under a hard and tough staple. Compounds C1. General attributive. (In sense 1.) staple-end n. ΚΠ 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 15 By examining the staple-ends to see whether they are pointed or thick. staple fibre n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > man-made textiles > [noun] acetyl cellulose1879 artificial silk1879 art silk1885 Chardonnet silk1893 triacetate1895 viscose silk1913 Celanese1921 rayon1924 fibro1926 staple fibre1928 viscose rayon1930 viscose1932 Lanital1936 Tricel1954 polynosic1959 olefin1960 modal1977 1928 E. Fyleman tr. Hottenroth Artificial Silk i. 16 Staple fibre..consists of artificial silk, the thread of which is cut into sections of about the length of cotton or worsted staple. 1974 Sci. Amer. Apr. 57/3 The viscose-rayon process..regenerates pure cellulose..as a continuous filament or a staple fiber. staple yarn n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > man-made > specific Saxony1910 Helanca1944 Taslan1954 staple yarn1955 Crimplene1959 Thermolactyl1959 Terital1960 Tencel1967 1955 Times 10 May 18/3 More inquiry continues to come forward for filament rayon and staple yarns. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 209 The filaments are bunched together, cut into short lengths, combed, drawn and spun into spun or staple yarn, which is fuzzier and is made into fabrics. C2. staple-rope n. (see quot. 1794). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of warp1296 sewing-rope1336 viring-rope1336 wardrope1338 bast1357 breast rope1412 balk-line1506 waterline1626 shank1706 selvage1711 shroud hawser1744 white line1747 selvagee1750 cringle1787 staple-rope1794 bracing-rope1827 selvage-stropc1860 soga1860 four-cant1867 toggle-lanyard1874 maguey1908 snorter1950 snotter1950 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 57 Staple-ropes, a term for ropes made of hemp not inferior to clean Petersburgh. staple-soil n. = sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > mould > layer garden mould1573 garden earth1577 staplea1722 staple-soil1847 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 317 This is chiefly a deep staple soil. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 20 His practice never advanced further than to lay bare the subsoil in the intervals' by gathering the staple-soil into the wheat ridges. staple-threaded adj. composed of thread of selected staple. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > made of > thread of selected staple staple-threaded1896 1896 Daily News 9 Apr. 6/5 Woven with a double warp and a staple-threaded weft of the strongest wools. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). staplen.4 northern. (See quots.) Also staple-pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > other types stulm1693 whim-shaft1759 sump shaft1778 channel1816 staple1818 incline shaft1842 raise1877 stair-pit1883 subshaft1889 1818 J. Adley Coal Trade 8 With sinking staples and driving drifts You're often put to all your shifts. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 50 Staple, a small pit, sunk upwards or downwards from one seam to another underground. 1862 Times 28 Jan. A ‘staple’, or narrow shaft communicating with the upper seam. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 238 Staple or Staple pit, a shallow shaft within a mine. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 733 I was near done when I got out, and then had to travel round and get out by a stapple. 1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 131 Bob Pringle has fa'en into a stapple fu' o' water in the great-seam waste. 1900 Engin. Mag. 19 714 Into all of these operations—cutting the coal by machinery,..hoisting trams up small ‘staple’ pits from one seam to another,..electricity now enters very largely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). stapleadj. 1. a. Originally, qualifying commodity or words of similar meaning: Having a foremost place among the products exported by a country or place. Hence, in wider sense: Having the chief place among the articles of production or consumption, the industries, employments, etc. of a place, a people, or an individual, or among the constituent elements of anything. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [adjective] > that is a staple staple1615 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > of things > other sovereignc1340 chief1377 grandc1390 staple1615 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 221 The staple commodities are cotton woolles..chamolets, salt and sope-ashes. a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 150 Wee may as easily grow expert in the Art of Fishing, and in time make it a staple commodity of our owne. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Glouc. 351 The staple use of Sider is at Sea, where it quencheth thirst better than other liquor. a1699 W. Temple Ess. Pop. Discontents in Wks. (1731) I. 263 Woollen manufacture..ought to be ever the Staple Trade of England, as that of Linnen ought to be of Ireland. 1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 27 Nothing but Massbooks and Rosaries..shall then be the staple Commodities, even in an University. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 201 Agriculture is..that art..from which the most staple commodities must proceed, to wit, corn and wool. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiii. 299 The only country in the world, where a cryptogamic plant afforded a staple article of food. 1840 L. Hunt Seer 25 We confined ourselves to tea, because it is the staple drink. 1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. ii. 44 Woollen cloth, which the King sought to make the staple manufacture of his own dominions. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 16 The staple commodity of my letters. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District 127 The staple trade of Keswick. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 112 Their staple subjects of thought. 1900 F. T. Elworthy Horns of Honour ii. 89 The staple accusation made by these wretches against their victims [witches] was that of being in compact with the devil. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > of people mosta1300 principala1382 principal?a1425 capitalc1475 supreme1496 chief1535 leading1631 staple1642 big league1917 high-level1947 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > standard staple1642 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > standard standard1645 staple1745 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xviii. 200 Proportion an houres meditation to an houres reading of a staple Authour. a1730 E. Fenton in Cook's Ed. Sel. Brit. Poets (1796) xxxvii. 45 And while each little author struts, In calf's-skin gilt, adorn'd with cuts, I, vouching, pass them off as dear, As any staple classic ware. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 223 The Chinese..say by heart all their Staple Books without Hesitation. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > native (of country or place) > of one's native country > of indigenous origin native1555 staple1771 autochthonous1804 autochthonic1828 autochthonal1829 1649 Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 14 Certaine Articles added to the same Act, all concerning staple or native commodities of this Kingdom shall be repealed.] 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lvii. 249 Pernicious influence..banishes the staple virtues of the country. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] truea1225 certain1297 standing1457 surec1475 stable1481 finite1493 resident1525 determinate1526 staid?1541 constantc1550 undiscomfitablea1555 inveterate1563 sound1565 unwanderinga1569 fixed1574 undisturbable1577 wishly1578 unremovable1579 inveterated1597 immoved1599 rigid1610 staple1621 consistent1648 irradicable1728 incoercible1756 hard and fast1822 unstrangulable1824 lockstep1831 statical1853 static1856 flatline1946 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] stablea1300 durablec1386 during1398 durant1455 permanent?a1475 standingc1480 perseverablea1500 indelible1532 of long standinga1568 permansible1568 long-established1589 dureful1595 subsistent1603 subsisting1613 staple1621 constant1645 long-standing1655 throughout1701 untemporary1784 pukka1801 rock-ribbed1903 hardwired1971 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 536 The Athenians gaue the Tenth, not onely of spoyles for once, and no more, but of land, to be a standing staple Tithe for euer. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 11 For sacrifice, in shedding of bloud, was the principall staple, standing Service of God in Nature. [Often in Mountagu.] a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts v, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 454/1 [He] will be sure to make his Foundation firm and staple. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > given before magistrate of trading town statute merchant1422 statute of the staple1426 statute1474 statute staple1576 recognisance staple1587 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 139/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They haue a maior and officers of the staple..who haue the liberties for taking of statutes and recognisances staple, not onelie within their owne towne..but also of sundrie townes in Leinster and Mounster, and the counties of Waterford, Kilkennie, Wexford, and Tipporarie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). staplev.1ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stabilize > fix firmly in place morec1300 ficchec1374 firmc1374 fix14.. staplec1400 stithc1480 perplant1548 settle1560 stay1565 lock1590 haft1755 sicker1824 brace1849 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > cover or furnish with helmet [verb (transitive)] > fasten (helmet) staplec1400 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 606 Þenne hentes he þe helme..Þat watȝ stapled stifly, & stoffed wyth-inne. 2. transitive. To secure with or as with a staple. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with staple staple1753 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with staple > of paper staple1964 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 125 [He] Brocht it till Scwne and stapill maid it thar, Quhar kingis was cround viii hundyr ȝer and mar Befor the tyme at king Eduuard it fand. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxix. 260 I was loaded with irons, and stapled to the deck. 1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 149 They cover them with canvass well tarred, and lay battins over it every three or four inches, stapling them fast with a kind of crooked nail. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 257 An iron ring that was stapled into a post. 1896 Strand Mag. 12 323/2 The standing ways are securely stapled to heavy cross-blocks of timber. 1964 ‘R. Petrie’ Murder by Precedent vi. 87 At no time after stapling the copies did I move any sheets apart. 1975 D. Ramsay Descent into Dark iv. 130 You were stapling that article on abortion together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). staplev.2 Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. transitive. To receive (export goods) at a staple; to cause to be weighed, inspected, and sealed in accordance with the regulations of the staple. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > import or export [verb (transitive)] > receive goods at staple staple1472 1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 59/2 That all the Wolles..be shipt and conveyed to the said Staple at Caleys and there to be stapled. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 14 The Company settled themselues in the Towne of Bridges, and stapled their commodities there. 2. intransitive. To establish a staple. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > import or export [verb (intransitive)] > establish a staple staple1582 1582 in R. Hakluyt Diuers Voy. sig. H It were good that we did seeke out some small Iland..where we might plant, Fortifie, & Staple safely, from whence..wee might feede those heathen nations with our commodities. Derivatives ˈstapling n. (in quot. 1908 attributive) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > receiving goods at staple stapling1908 1908 H. Atton & H. H. Holland King's Customs 26 To gain possession of the stapling privilege. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1c950n.21364n.31481n.41818adj.1587v.1c1400v.21472 |
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