- a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- a wire-stitching machine, especially one used in bookbinding.
- Also called staple gun. a hand-powered tool used for driving heavy-duty wire staples into wood and other materials.
Origin of stapler
1First recorded in
1905–10; staple1 +
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British Dictionary definitions for staple gun- a mechanism that fixes staples to a surface
- a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper, etc, to hold them together
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Word Origin and History for staple gunn.mechanical device for driving staples, by 1949; agent noun from staple (v.).
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