Dictionary definition: wool stapler

Dictionary definition: wool-stapler
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      198 words ...wool-sta·pler • n. archaic a person who buys wool from a producer, grades it, and sells it to a manufacturer.

Article: Books
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  September 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... pocket-handkerchief," "poke bonnet," "vitamin G," "lantern pinion," "frutescent," "impudicity," "wool stapler," "long play," "retirant," "sheep-dip," "ten- cent store" and "traffic manager." A few hundred more ...

Article: Herbert Henry Asquith
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... weaving. The death of his father when Herbert was 8 years old brought the family under the care of his mother's father, a wool stapler in Huddersfield. There Herbert and his brother, William Willans, went to day school; later they attended a Moravian boarding ...

Article: Against the tide: The life of Francis W. Hirst
The Freeman;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was the third of five children (two sons, three daughters) of a prosperous wool-stapler, Alfred Hirst, who went blind at 27, and his wife, Mary Wrigley. On both sides of his family Frank Hirst had nonconformist ...

Article: Art-Historical Notes: Where are the Hirsts of the 1930s now?
The Independent - London;  November 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... backgrounds and odd histories were very different. Born in Bradford. Yorkshire, in 1905, Butterfield left school to become a wool-stapler. Francis attended evening classes under Henry Butler at Bradford School of Art, to educate a passion for painting. By ...

Article: C&J Clark International Ltd.
International Directory of Company Histories;      700+ words ... ... Founding a Footwear Dynasty in the 1830s Cyrus Clark, son of Somerset-based farmers, went into business for himself as a wool stapler and tanner, establishing a workshop in the village of Street, in Somerset, England, in 1825. Clark then added the production ...

Article: The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594.
Contemporary Review;  May 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... among his dramatis personae. Shakespeare's father John looms unexpectedly large in the story - butcher, tanner, glover, wool-stapler, usurer, town councillor and a staunch Catholic in a strongly Protestant area. Inviting further investigation is the question ...