Lexicographical Neighbors of Stapple
Literary usage of Stapple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1837)
"Its superiority over the Stanhope consists in the less liability of the stapple
to break, or that part in the Stanhope press which corresponds to the cheeks ..."
2. Transactions (1855)
"We were also certain that the air was forced back to the stapple and that the
returns, besides being quite full both on the south and north side were ..."
3. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by James Barmby (1896)
"A stapple for hangin on the lock of ... A stapple, jd. 4 spikings, zd. To the
new Captai ne, - —. A quart of Ale to the writer,1 zd. ..."
4. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by James Barmby (1896)
"For a stapple, id. For a dayes worke at the low Carr, "jd. ... A stapple, jd.
4 spikings, 2d. To the new Captaine, .. A quart of Ale to the writer,1 2d. ..."
5. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"stapple, s. A small quantity of thatch, those heads, ibid. ... made up in a
particular form, SO of a tobacco-pipe, Roxb., Ettr. For. ; Plpc- stapple synon. ..."
6. Annual Report on the Mines by Nova Scotia Public Works and Mines Dept (1897)
"There is a pit called the stapple Pit, 150 feet from the new bottom on the east
side. This pit, 120 feet, connects the third seam with the deep seam. ..."
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