staple

tärkein

nitoa

määly

perustarvike

nitomasinkilä puhekieltä A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
Arbuthnot

The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.

For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.

Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.

Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumour that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head.

We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester.

The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.

In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.

tow Tow is flax with short staple.

to staple cotton

a staple town

a staple trade

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wool, the great staple commodity of England

Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?

The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.

Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.