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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stapler

Stapler \Sta"pler\ (-pl[~e]r), n.

  1. A dealer in staple goods.

  2. One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

  3. A device used to drive a staple[8] into objects so as to fasten them together.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stapler

mechanical device for driving staples, by 1949; agent noun from staple (v.). Long before, it meant "merchant of the staple, monopolist."

Wiktionary
stapler

Etymology 1 n. A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper. Compare staple gun. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context dated English) A dealer in staple goods. 2 (context dated English) One employed to sort wool according to its staple.

WordNet
stapler

n. a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together [syn: stapling machine]

Wikipedia
Stapler

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 actually refer to a number of different devices of varying uses. In addition to joining paper sheets together, staplers can also be used in a surgical setting to join tissue together with surgical staples to close a surgical wound (much in the same way as sutures).

Typically, most staplers are used to join multiple sheets of paper. Paper staplers come in two distinct types: manual and electric. Manual staplers are normally hand-held, although models that are used while set on a desk or other surface are not uncommon. Electric staplers exist in a variety of different designs and models. Their primary operating function is to join large numbers of paper sheets together in rapid succession. Some electric staplers can join up to 20 sheets at a time.

A staple gun is usually a heavier duty, hand-held device; it can be strictly manual or pneumatic. Typical staplers are a third-class lever.

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.