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stapple

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stapple (plural stapples)

  1. (obsolete) The stem of a pipe.
    • 1895, Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry (page 15)
      Only give me, I pray, a good pipe of soft clay, / Nicely tapered and thin in the stapple; []