stapler

¹ 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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stapler ² 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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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 1505–15; staple ² + -er ¹

Origin of stapler¹

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

Example Sentences

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

Emma Wiseman, a puppetry artist, started working on a horror movie just before the pandemic about an apocalypse in which only office supplies like staplers and paper clips survived.

From New York Times

He sat down at the table with his tools — a pen, a stapler, some slips of paper — and put on his reading glasses.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• fastener
• staple gun