Difference between revisions of "Staple"
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Revision as of 12:35, 13 April 2010
- tower → staple
- steeple
- staple: wool; lock of wool
- staple: a u-shaped type of nail
- stable → the occurrence of born and stable in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman)
- Staple: basic food stuff - of other days- traditionally potato; distilled to potcheen a potent spirit
