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staple 1 Noun a short length of wire bent into a square U-shape, used to fasten papers or secure things Verb [-pling, -pled] to secure (things) with staples [Old English stapol prop] staple 2 Adjective of prime importance; principal: the staple diet of a country Noun 1. something that forms a main part of the product, consumption, or trade of a region 2. a main constituent of anything: the personal reflections which make up the staple of the book [Middle Dutch stapel warehouse]
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staple Translationsadj [crop, industry, food etc] → básico vt → grapar vt → agrafer (chief product) → Hauptartikel m vt → heften adj [food etc] → di base; [crop, industry] → principale vt → cucire |
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Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. A passenger was running through a gangway, between decks, one stormy night, when he caught his foot in the iron staple of a door that had been heedlessly left off a hatchway, and the bones of his leg broke at the ancle. Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted. |
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