Stape

s.w. dial. [Altered form of STAPLE.] = STAPLE sb.¹

1512.  Stratton (Cornw.) Churchw. Acc., in Archæologia, XLVI. 201. Paid to wylliam Jule for a stape to the stepyll dore iij d.

1629–30.  Hartland Church Acc., in Hartland (Devon) Gloss. (1891), s.v., Pd Charles Bagilholl for 2 stapes of iron to make fast y^e leads ag^t the Tower iii d.

1891.  Hartland (Devon) Gloss., Stape, a staple. (Always.)