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▪ I. stapled, a.1|ˈsteɪp(ə)ld|
[f. staple n.3 + -ed2.]
Having a staple (of a certain kind). Chiefly in parasynthetic formations, as in long-stapled, short-stapled; thin-stapled; also well-stapled. a. Of wool, sheep; also of cotton, silk, etc.: see staple n.3 1.
1594Greene Friar Bacon 1514 My flockes, Yeelding forth fleeces stapled with such woole, As Lempster cannot yeelde more finer stuffe. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 346 Of the fifteen millions of short stapled ones [sc. fleeces], which the kingdom produces, there are not five hundred thousand which even border upon perfection. 1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**, Coarser and shorter stapled cottons. 1865Reader 8 July 47/1 He had himself seen, in Pekin, warehouses stored with..fine tobacco, short-stapled silk, paper [etc.].
b. Of soil: see staple n.3 3.
1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 130 Taking away small stones and flints is detrimental to..thin stapled light lands, and to all lands of a binding nature. 1795Vancouver Agric. Essex 27 A well stapled gravelly loam. 1844Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. i. 17 The thin-stapled lands of this district.
▪ II. stapled, a.2|ˈsteɪp(ə)ld|
[f. staple n.1 + -ed2.]
Furnished with a staple or staples (staple n.1 2); spec. of papers, fastened together with a staple or staples.
1845Browning Confessional xii, That horrible black scaffold dressed, That stapled block..God sink the rest! 1868J. Greenwood in Morn. Star 3 Feb., It is two years and a week or so since I applied at that stapled knocker and traversed the chaste hall. 1956S. Bellow Seize Day (1957) i. 32 Several pages of blue hectographed script, stapled together. 1958N. & Q. Jan. 46/2 The cost of this book by English standards ($1.50 for a text in stapled paper cover) is prohibitive. 1974‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper xii. 113 He picked up the wad of stapled foolscap sheets. |