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/stˈeɪpələr/ /stˈeɪplər/ Listen

noun

Stapler n.

A dealer in staple goods.

One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

A device used to drive a staple (8) into objects so as to fasten them together.

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Etymology of 'Stapler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stapler" Quotes from Famous Books

... ranged in a great pyramid close by. A wall some ten feet high separated the yard from the lane Cyril had spoken of. On the left, adjoining the warehouse, was the yard of the next shop, which belonged to a wool-stapler. Behind were the backs of a number of small houses crowded in between ...

— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... the New Meeting (Kneesworth Street Chapel) was established later by the efforts of Mr. Stallabrass, a wool stapler, living in Melbourn Street. The distinction of paid Church school teachers and voluntary teachers at the Chapels appears to have been kept up for at least 20 years after the schools were established, for in 1831 a ...

— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston