Definition of Staple

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Staple

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.

Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.

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.

The principal constituent in anything; chief item.

Unmanufactured material; raw material.

The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.

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.

A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.

A small pit.

A district granted to an abbey.

Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.

Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.

Fit to be sold; marketable.

Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

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Staple Quotations

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Quentin Tarantino

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.
Debbie Allen

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
Louise Brown

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
David F. Houston

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
Charles Sturt

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
Michael Musto

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
James T. Walsh

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
John Lawson

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.
Timothy White

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
Jeremy Jackson

Staple Translations

staple in Afrikaans is hakie
staple in Dutch is haakje, kramp, nietje, klamp
staple in German is Heftklammer
staple in Italian is affissare
staple in Portuguese is grampo
staple in Spanish is grapa

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