STAPLER

STAPLER. A staple (Dutch stapel,) means a mart or emporium, and in old times a " merchant of the staple" signified a trader of impoj'tance. In course of time, howevei', the word daplcr was monopolized by the dealer in wool, and it is now cnlyheard in the compound "wool-stapler." Drayton, in his Polyolbion, commends Leicester—

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.