Staple
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Staple may refer to:
Fasteners
- Staple (fastener), a small formed metal fastener
- Surgical staple
Trade
- The Staple, in English historiography, the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation
- Staple right, a medieval right of certain German ports to require merchant vessels to unload and display their goods for sale for a certain period, often three days
- Statute of the Staple, a statute passed in 1353 by the Parliament of England
- Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period
- Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, brought together London's leading overseas merchants in a regulated company, in the nature of a guild
Trade technical uses
- Staple food, a (store-able) foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet
- Staple (textiles), the raw material of fiber from which textiles are made
- Staple (wool), wool fibers that naturally form themselves into locks
Places
- Staple, Kent, a village in Kent, England near Sandwich
- Staple railway station, serving the village of Staple
- Staple Fitzpaine, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England
- Staple, Nord, a commune in the Nord department in northern France
- Staple Hill (disambiguation)
- Staple Inn, a building on the south side of High Holborn in London, England
- Staple Island, a small rocky island that is one of the outer Farne Islands in Northumberland, England
- Staple Bend Tunnel, constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad about 4 miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- Stapleford (disambiguation), a number of places in the United Kingdom
Other
- STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics and other independent media
- Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band
- Staple (2002 album), a 2002 album by Staple
- Staple (2004 album), a 2004 album by Staple
- Staple (EP), a 2003 EP released by the band Staple
- Staple Design, a visual communications agency
- Staple financing, describes a form of investment banks pre-arranged financing package offered to potential bidders during an acquisition
See also
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