Staple
# Staple

Staple may refer to:

* Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet
* Staple (fastener), a small formed metal fastener
   * Surgical staple

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band
   * Staple (2002 album), an album by Staple
   * Staple (2004 album), an album by Staple
   * Staple (EP), a 2003 EP by Staple
* STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics and other independent media
* "Staple Singers/ Freda Payne", a Soul Train episode
* The Staple Singers, an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group
* The Staple Swingers, a 1971 soul album by the Staple Singers

## Brands and enterprises

* Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period
* Staple Design, a visual communications agency

## Fibers

* Staple (textiles), the raw material of fiber from which textiles are made
* Staple (wool), wool fibers that naturally form themselves into locks

## Places

* Staple, Kent, a village in Kent, England near Sandwich
   * Staple railway station, serving the village of Staple
* Staple, Nord, a commune in the Nord department in northern France
* Staple Bend Tunnel, constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad about four miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
* Staple Fitzpaine, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England
* Staple Island, a small rocky island in the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England

## Trade

* Staple right, a medieval right of certain German ports to require merchant vessels to unload and display their goods for sale for a certain period, often three days
* Statute of the Staple, a statute passed in 1353 by the Parliament of England
* The Staple, in English historiography, the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation

## Other uses

* Staple financing, a form of financing package offered to potential bidders during an acquisition
* Staple Inn, in London, England, the last surviving Inn of Chancery
