Linen straps were attached to it by iron staples.

The place was bare, but iron staples supporting light chains were fixed in the walls.

Up the wall some iron staples were set, evidently meant for climbing.

But there's a grille or something here, just at the side of the iron staples.

'These iron staples would be jolly useful to anyone coming up,' said Julian.

He saw a rope caught round an iron staple driven into the rock.

The boy put his torch befween his teeth, and then pulled himself up by the iron staples set in the wall.

He felt about with his feet, and found the iron staples in the hole below him.

Then I switched on the torch again and felt with my boot for the first of the iron staples.

In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally.