A recurring topic or character.
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 shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
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.
To sort according to its staple.
To secure with a staple.
An idea from a talk, presentation, etc., that the listener or reader should remember and consider.
The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball.
A concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations.
A meal which has been purchased and has been carefully packaged as to be taken and consumed elsewhere.
A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere.
(Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.