[f. STAPLE sb.1 + -ED2.] Furnished with a staple or staples (STAPLE sb.1 2).

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1845.  Browning, Confessional, xii. That horrible black scaffold dressed, That stapled block … God sink the rest!

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1868.  J. Greenwood, in Morn. Star, 3 Feb. It is two years and a week or so since I applied at that stapled knocker and traversed the chaste hall.

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