Staple may refer to: *

Staple food A staple food, food staple, or simply staple, is a food that is eaten often and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for an individual or a population group, supplying a large fraction of energy needs an ...

, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet *

Staple (fastener) A staple is a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together. Large staples might be used with a hammer or staple gun for masonry, Roofing material, roofing, corrugated boxes and other he ...

, a small formed metal fastener **

Surgical staple Surgical staples are specialized Staple (fastener), staples used in surgery in place of surgical suture, sutures to close skin wounds or to resection (surgery), resect and/or anastomosis, connect parts of an Organ (biology), organ (e.g. bowels, ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band ** ''Staple'' (2002 album), an album by Staple ** ''Staple'' (2004 album), an album by Staple ** ''Staple'' (EP), a 2003 EP by Staple * STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics and other independent media *" Staple Singers/ Freda Payne", a ''Soul Train'' episode *

The Staple Singers The Staple Singers were an American Gospel music, gospel, soul music, soul, and Rhythm and blues, R&B singing group. Pops Staples, Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group w ...

, an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group *'' The Staple Swingers'', a 1971 soul album by the Staple Singers

Brands and enterprises

Merchants of the Staple The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England, the Merchants of the Staple, also known as the Merchant Staplers, is an English company incorporated by Royal Charter in 1319 (and so the oldest mercantile corporation in England) dealing in wool, ...

, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period * Staple Design, a visual communications agency

Fibers

Staple (textiles) A staple fiber is a textile fiber of discrete length. The opposite is a filament fiber, which comes in continuous lengths. Staple length is a characteristic fiber length of a sample of staple fibers. It is an essential criterion in yarn spinnin ...

, the raw material of fiber from which textiles are made *

Staple (wool) A wool staple is a cluster or lock of wool fibres and not a single fibre. For other textiles, the staple, having evolved from its usage with wool, is a measure of the quality of the fibre with regard to its length or fineness. Etymology Of un ...

, wool fibers that naturally form themselves into locks

Places

* Staple, Kent, a village in Kent, England near Sandwich ** Staple railway station, serving the village of Staple *

Staple, Nord Staple () is a commune in the Nord department in the region of Hauts-de-France in northern France. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Rep ...

, a commune in the Nord department in northern France * Staple Bend Tunnel, constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad about four miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania * Staple Fitzpaine, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England *

Staple Island Staple Island is a small rocky island, or skerry, that is one of the Outer Group of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England. The Farne Islands are a designated National Nature Reserve. Staple Island is an important wildlife habitat known fo ...

, a small rocky island in the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England

Trade

Staple right The staple right, also translated stacking right or storage right, both from the Dutch , was a medieval right accorded to certain ports, the staple ports. It required merchant barges or ships to unload their goods at the port and to display them f ...

, a medieval right of certain German ports to require merchant vessels to unload and display their goods for sale for a certain period, often three days *

Statute of the Staple The Ordinance of the Staple was an ordinance issued in the Great Council in October 1353. It aimed to regularise the status of staple ports in England, Wales, and Ireland. In particular, it designated particular ports where specific goods c ...

, a statute passed in 1353 by the Parliament of England * The Staple, in English historiography, the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation

Other uses

* Staple financing, a form of financing package offered to potential bidders during an acquisition *

Staple Inn Staple Inn is a part-Tudor period, Tudor building on the south side of High Holborn street in the City of London, London, England. Located near Chancery Lane tube station, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty ...

, in London, England, the last surviving Inn of Chancery