Staple
From Free net encyclopedia
Template:Wiktionarypar Staple may mean:
- Staple (fastener), a formed metal fastener used to secure sheets of material or wires
- Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet. It is a standard commodity rather than a speciality item.
- Staple (textiles) is the raw material, or its length and quality, of fibre from which textiles are made. It is the material in its standard form as a traded commodity.
- Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band.
- STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics, minicomics, and other independent media
[edit]
Places
- A Staple port was one in which trade in specified goods was regulated. The term is a medieval one. Normally the king licensed a particular group of merchants to trade in the commodity, in an area such as his kingdom and their trading had to be done in the staple town or port.
- The Staple was Calais.
- Staple, Nord (pronunciation: stohpl) is a commune in the Nord département of France. This is the name in its Flemish form.
- Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, is another place in which the word appears but in its French form.
- Staple, Kent is a village in Kent, England near Sandwich.
[edit]