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Definition of wool-stapler in English: wool-staplernoun archaic A person who buys wool from a producer, grades it, and sells it to a manufacturer. 〈古〉羊毛商（指从生产者买入羊毛将其分级后出售给制造商的商人） Example sentencesExamples - Every eight miles or so was the country town, where lawyer, corn merchant, wool-stapler, saddler, veterinary surgeon, doctor, draper, milliner and so forth lived.
- 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.
- Lewes Wool Fair - On Friday last, the annual fair for the sale of wool was held at Lewes, in Sussex, and was well attended by numbers of the most respectable wool-staplers from London and elsewhere, and by the farmers of the eastern division of the county.
- In 1822, his father Daniel could afford to leave the farm and start his own business in Bradford as a wool-stapler.
Definition of wool-stapler in US English: wool-staplernounˈwʊlˌsteɪp(ə)lərˈwo͝olˌstāp(ə)lər archaic A person who buys wool from a producer, grades it, and sells it to a manufacturer. 〈古〉羊毛商（指从生产者买入羊毛将其分级后出售给制造商的商人） Example sentencesExamples - In 1822, his father Daniel could afford to leave the farm and start his own business in Bradford as a wool-stapler.
- 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.
- Lewes Wool Fair - On Friday last, the annual fair for the sale of wool was held at Lewes, in Sussex, and was well attended by numbers of the most respectable wool-staplers from London and elsewhere, and by the farmers of the eastern division of the county.
- Every eight miles or so was the country town, where lawyer, corn merchant, wool-stapler, saddler, veterinary surgeon, doctor, draper, milliner and so forth lived.
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