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stapler
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Word definitions for stapler in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mechanical device for driving staples, by 1949; agent noun from staple (v.). Long before, it meant "merchant of the staple, monopolist."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stapler \Sta"pler\ (-pl[~e]r), 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stapler is a mechanical device that joins pages of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Staplers are widely used in government, business, offices , homes and schools . The word "stapler" can ...
Usage examples of stapler.
She had never used a stapler before, so she sometimes stapled her fingers by mistake, which hurt quite a bit.
Sojee with a stack of flyers and the stapler, then dropped her on Columbia, near Christ House.
Hefting the stapler in her right hand, she opened the door and peered into the corridor.
Sighing, she strode back into her office area and retrieved the stapler again.
Lined up beyond are a pewter cup of colored pencils and Biros, a calculator, a stapler, and a notepad printed with the unpronounceable name of some veterinary anesthetic.
Betty wandered off toward the parking lot mumbling, the tape dispenser and stapler still clutched stubbornly in each hand.
Inside was a little pencil sharpener and three pencils, two of which were now only an inch long, and a stapler and two pieces of paper with about fifty staples in them.
It was scrupulously neat, the two pens, stapler, receipt book, and telephone lined up like soldiers for inspection.
Oxford and Woodstock, a frequented road, for by it the staplers sent their pack-trains to load their wool in the river barges.
The volunteers took positions at the tables the instant the legs hit the floor, piling all available surfaces with fliers and envelopes, staplers and stamps and boxes of rubber bands.
The Aristocracy of the Robe cried out their displeasure and swarmed toward them, waving their staplers and quills in a most martial manner.
Batteries, candles, an extension cord, receipts, rubber bands, packets of matches, two buttons, a sewing kit, pencils, junk mail, a dinner fork, a stapler gun, all of it surrounded by accumulated grit.
Batteries, candles, an extension cord, receipts, rubber bands, packets of matches, two buttons, a sewing kit, pencils, junk mail, a dinner fork, a stapler gun- all of it surrounded by accumulated grit.
Crossing it, Sun Wolf and his bucolic-looking bodyguard jostled shoulders with clerks and staplers, master weavers, merchants, and bankers, among the high-piled ranks of goods—woolpacks and fleeces, aromatic bales of dyewoods, huge baskets of madder and indigo, and netted parcels of shellfish and of the tiny insects from the forests of the south, whose crushed bodies yielded the richest of scarlet dyes.
One can buy Kogepan purses, fridge magnets, pens, lighters, hair brushes, staplers, pencil boxes, knapsacks, watches, figurines.