Word Finder - staple

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A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.

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(by extension) Place of supply; source.

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The principal commodity produced in a town or region.

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A basic or essential supply.

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Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.

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A recurring topic or character.

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Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.

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Unmanufactured material; raw material.

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To sort according to its staple.

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to staple cotton

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Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.

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a staple town

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Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.

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a staple trade

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Fit to be sold; marketable.

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Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

The staple crop is rice, which is grown on 77 per cent.

In the north the staple products for export are salt, grain, wool and cotton, in the south opium and cotton; while the imports consist of sugar, hardware and piece goods.

The staple articles of export are hides, wool and dates.

The staple crop is rice.

Wheat is the staple food over the greater part of the country.

Poncho's was a staple for the twenty-something crowd.

The agriculturists and herdsmen who had been left in Palestine formed, as always, the staple population, and it is impossible to imagine either Judah or Israel as denuded of its inhabitants.

It is only by such careful and con tinuous selection that the staple of these high-bred strains can be kept up to its present superiority, and if for any reason the selection is interrupted there is a general and rapid decline in quality."

Of the former Inns of Chancery attached to these Inns of Court the most noteworthy buildings remaining are those of Staple Inn, of which the timbered and gabled Elizabethan front upon High Holborn is a unique survival of its character in a London thoroughfare; and of Barnard's Inn, occupied by the Mercer's School.

Egyptian cotton in length of staple is intermediate between average Sea Island and average Upland.

The Indian cottons are usually of short staple (about 4 in.), but are probably capable of improvement.

The following table, summarized from the Handbook to the Imperial Institute Cotton Exhibition, 1905, giving the length of staple and value on one date (January 16, 1905), will serve to indicate the comparative values of some of the principal commercial cottons.

United States of America.-The cultivation of cotton as a staple crop in the United States dates from about 1770, 1 although efforts appear to have been made in Virginia as far back as 1621.

The longer the staple above the minimum the higher the counts that can be spun.

The staple silk industry (which dates from the 16th century) has declined, the number both of filande (establishments wherein the cocoons are unwound) and of filatoje (those wherein the silk is spun) having diminished.

Jowaree is displacing rice as the staple food of the Somali.

The staple export is raw cotton, the value of which is about 80% of all the exports.

It enjoyed a brief existence as a staple town from 1327 to 1332.

In 1549, too, the English merchant adventurers removed their staple from Antwerp to Hamburg.

In Arabia it is the chief source of national wealth, and its fruit forms the staple article of food in that country.

Edward III., by the Statute Staple of 1353, declared Carmarthen the sole staple for Wales, ordering that every bale of Welsh wool should be sealed or "cocketed" here before it left the Principality.

Although the coast and river fisheries of Brazil are numerous and valuable, cured fish is one of the staple imports, and foreign products are to be found even along the Amazon.

Leather and rubber goods, gold, silver and aluminium wares, machinery, wall-paper, and stained glass are also among other of its staple products.

When the spinner has informed the dealer exactly what quality of cotton he needs, the dealer quotes so many " points on or off " the " future " quotations prevailing in Liverpool at the time of the purchase, which refer to Upland cotton of " middling grade," of " no staple " and of the worst growth.

Behind their villages the rice-fields usually spread, and rice, which is the staple food of the people, is the principal article of agriculture among them.

Maize is the staple food of the Kaffirs.

It is the staple food everywhere, and little is exported.

The valleys and slopes are carefully cultivated in fields divided by stone walls, and produce beans, peas, sweet potatoes, "Russian turnip radish," barley, a little rice and millet, the last being the staple article of diet.

Corn was the staple produce of Egypt and may have been exported regularly, and especially when there was famine in other countries.

Small fruits, orchard fruits, hay, garden products and grains are decreasingly dependent on irrigation; wheat, which was once California's great staple, is (for good, but not for best results) comparatively independent of it, - hence its early predominance in Californian agriculture, due to this success on arid lands since taken over for more remunerative irrigated crops.

The monthly grocery program, in which people purchase from a wide selection of food products, is the main staple of the fundraising program.

The staple crop of the province in both Upper and Lower Burma is rice.

At the Hanseatic assembly of 1469, Dantzig, Hamburg and Breslau opposed the maintenance of a compulsory staple at Bruges in the face of the new conditions produced by a widening commerce and more advantageous markets.

But while it was found impossible to enforce the staple or to close the Sound against the Dutch, other features of the monopolistic system of trade regulations were still upheld.

The province produces much grain and a fine quality of cotton with a very long staple.

The staple productions are machinery, railway engines and carriages, steel, tin and bronze wares, pottery, bent and carved wood furniture, textiles and chemicals.

Barley and oats are grown for forage, but for this purpose alfalfa has become the staple, and without it the mountain packtrains could not be maintained.

For edible purposes the most valuable of the Japanese echinoderms is the sea-slug or bche de mer (namako), which is greatly appreciated and forms an important staple of export to China.

The staple type has black glaze showing little lustre, and in choice varieties this is curiously speckled and pitted with red.

In the time of the counts the wealth of Gouda was mainly derived from brewing and cloth-weaving; but at a later date the making of clay tobacco pipes became the staple trade, and, although this industry has somewhat declined, the churchwarden pipes of Gouda are still well known and largely manufactured.

The manufacture of woollen cloth has been established since the 15th century, Frome being the only Somerset town in which this staple industry has flourished continuously.

Sugar, formerly its staple, has been succeeded by salt.

Rice forms the staple product of the district; its three chief varieties are biali or early rice, sarad or winter rice, and dalua or spring rice.

Reichenberg is one of the most important centres of trade and industry in Bohemia, its staple industry being the cloth manufacture.

Salomon Reinach, guided by the analogy of similar practices among the aborigines of Australia, and noticing that these primitive pictures represent none but animals that formed the staple food of the age and place, and that they are usually found in the deepest and darkest recesses of the caves where they could only be drawn and seen by torchlight, has argued that they were not intended for artistic gratification (a late motive in human art), but were magical representations destined to influence and perhaps attract the hunter's quarry.

Coffee is the staple production, though Indian corn, mandioca and fruit are produced largely for local consumption.

The staple imports are piece goods, tobacco, cotton, earthenware, tea and sugar.

This composite art reached its climax in Peru, the llama wool affording the finest staple on the whole hemisphere.

The staple industries of Haarlem have been greatly modified in the course of time.

The chief crop is mealies, the staple food of the natives; wheat, oathay, Kaffir corn and oats coming next.