wool stapler
- noun
- UK
:
comerciante de lana
- The wool stapler inspected the fleeces before purchasing them from the farmers.
Examples
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After the auction, the wool stapler negotiated prices with local shepherds.
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His grandfather worked as a wool stapler in Yorkshire during the 19th century.
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The wool stapler sold high-quality fleece to local farmers.
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Many wool staplers attend the annual sheep festival.
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The wool stapler inspected the fleeces before purchasing them from the farmers.
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His grandfather worked as a wool stapler in Yorkshire during the 19th century.
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After the auction, the wool stapler negotiated prices with local shepherds.
Synonyms
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7.8
A person or company that buys large amounts of goods to sell to shops
Surface Forms
Morphology
wool + stapler
The element 'wool' is fully transparent, but 'stapler' is ambiguous or unfamiliar to many learners (they may think of an office stapler or merely the agentive -er). A B1 learner could infer 'someone associated with wool' from the agentive morphology, but the precise occupational sense 'dealer in raw wool' is not reliably predictable from the parts, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Wool stapler may come from the market word 'staple', a place where merchants met to buy and sell important goods like wool. A wool stapler stood at that market to inspect and trade fleeces, so the name came to mean 'a person who buys and sells wool'.