title: Staple
text: # 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
  