stapler

¹ American  

[stey-pler] / ˈsteɪ plər /

noun

1. a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples. staple.

2. a wire-stitching machine, especially one used in bookbinding.

3. Also called staple gun.  a hand-powered tool used for driving heavy-duty wire staples staple into wood and other materials.

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stapler ² American  

[stey-pler] / ˈsteɪ plər /

noun

1. a person who staples staple wool.

2. a merchant who deals in a staple or staples. staple.

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ˈstapler British  

/ ˈsteɪplə /

noun

1. a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper, etc, to hold them together

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Etymology

Origin of stapler¹

First recorded in 1905–10; staple ¹ + -er ¹

Origin of stapler²

First recorded in 1505–15; staple ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

A box of drawing pins, an old stapler, a tangled mess of paperclips, a pencil sharpener.

From Literature

Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gabriel Trujillo, just 8 or 9 years old, wrote that he would be a stapler.

From Seattle Times

Her father, Charles, designed and manufactured staplers and other office items.

From New York Times

Akbar and Shelley hear this separately and see the error in their ways, mending their children's relationship with all the delicacy of closing an open heart surgery incision with an industrial stapler.

From Salon

Related Words

• fastener
• staple gun