A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
Unmanufactured material; raw material.
A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
A basic or essential supply.
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.
A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
A small pit.
A district granted to an abbey.
Place of supply; source.
The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
A recurring topic or character.
A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
To sort according to its staple.
To secure with a staple.
Fit to be sold; marketable.
Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.