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▪ I. stamper, n.|ˈstæmpə(r)|
[f. stamp v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who stamps with the feet; † one who treads (grapes). Also with out (cf. stamp v. 3 d).
1388Wyclif Amos ix. 13 And the stampere [1382 treder] of grape schal take the man sowynge seed. 1913E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case 6 He stood in every eye as the unquestioned guardian of stability, the stamper-out of manipulated crises. 1914J. H. Skrine Pastor Futurus xxii. 180 Breaker of bruised reeds and stamper on smoking flax.
b. Med. (See quot.)
1901Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 2) Stamper, a person affected with locomotor ataxia; so called because of the peculiar stamping gait of that disease.
c. Ornith. (See quot.)
1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 240 Forced to rise by stamping with the feet on the ground; from this latter circumstance, the birds have been named Calcatores (stampers).
2. a. One who uses a stamp or works a stamping machine; one who marks an impression (on something) with a stamp. (In several trades the designation of a special class of workmen.) Also fig.
1556Charter Stationers' Co. in Entick London (1766) IV. 227 Any stamper, printer, binder or seller of any manner of books. 1621J. Archbold Beauty of Holiness 6 The Holy Ghost, as the immediate stamper of this impression of holinesse in the spirits of men. 1735J. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. (ed. 31) 90 [Officers for the Stamp Duties.] The Names of the Thirty-Nine Stampers. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. Brit. II. No. 6449, The stampers [in needle manufacture] make a perforation partly through the wires. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 263/1 The early stampers were timid, and used only shallow dies.
b. A postal employee who applies the postmark and obliterates the postage stamps on letters and postal packets.
1850Ogilvie s.v., In the Glasgow post-office there are four stampers. 1901Scotsman 26 Dec. 8/1 The swiftest stamper in the office..has obliterated [with the machine] the stamps of 268 faced letters in a minute.
3. An instrument used in stamping.
a. A pestle, rammer.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour f ij, He..took a stamper and brake the two legges of his wyf. 1600Surflet Country Farm iii. lii. 551 Lay nutmegs on heapes, bray them with a woodden stamper. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Beetle, For the military use, beetles, called also stampers, are thick round pieces of wood... Their use is for beating or settling the earth of a parapet. 1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archip. vi. (1874) 92 [The Dyak woman] has an hour's work every evening to pound the rice with a heavy wooden stamper.
b. (Chiefly pl.) The pestle or each of several pestles in a crushing or pounding machine, esp. in a stamping mill = stamp n.3 9.
1602Carew Cornwall 12 Of late times they mostly vse wet stampers, and so haue no need of the crazing mils for their best stuffe. 1674Petty Dupl. Proportion 64 Water gushing out upon the floats of Under-shot Mills; as may be seen in the Stampers of Paper-Mills. 1791Smeaton Edystone L. (1793) §201 It is beat by iron-headed Stampers upon an iron bed. 1872W. W. Smyth Mining Statist. 51 The crushing machine has 48 stampers, in twelve batteries of four stampers each. Each stamper weighs 6 cwt.
c. A hat-maker's tool: See quots.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 386/1 The Felt-makers, (or more generally termed Hat-makers) Instrument called a Stamper. 1745De Coetlogon's Hist. Arts & Sci. II. 106/2 A Stamper..is a Piece of Iron or Copper, bent. Ibid. 107/1 We'll proceed to give it the proper Form, by laying the conical Cap on a wooden Block of the intended Size of the Crown of the Hat; and thus tie it round with the Commander, which we'll beat and gradually drive down all round with the Stamper. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 295 (Hatter), These inequalities are reduced..in which the assistance of a copper instrument called a ‘stamper’ is found available.
d. An instrument for beating leather. (Cf. stamp n.3 10.)
1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 227 The stamper leaves the surface of the leather [etc.].
e. A matrix or copy of an original disc recording used to press other copies of a gramophone record.
1918[see matrix 4 c]. 1935[see master n.1 10 a]. 1952[see mother n.1 11]. 1975G. J. King Audio Handbk. vii. 154 Most gramophone records start as very high quality tape recordings, the edited material then being recorded in disc form on to a lacquer blank, from which the stamper is ultimately derived.
4. slang. pl. Shoes; feet. ? Obs.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 83 Stampers, shooes. 1652Brome Joviall Crew i. Wks. III. 366 Strike up Piper a merry merry dance That we on our stampers may foot it and prance. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 20 From thy stampers then remove Thy Drawers [i.e. stockings]. 1676Coles Dict., Stampers, shoes or carriers. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Deuseavile-Stampers, County-Carriers. 1819Sporting Mag. V. 123 Coster-mongers, in all their gradations, down to the Stampers. 1828Egan Boxiana IV. 164 The leaky stampers gave symptoms of ague touches to their miserable owners, who had not better soles for the trying occasion.
5. Conch. In book-names of certain shells. ? Obs.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. x. 98 Marbled Luzone Stamper, with a flesh-coloured and black Mouth. 1713― Aquat. Anim. Amboinæ Tab. ii, Cylindrus..Prince Stamper. Voluta Musicalis..Horn-Book Stamper.
6. attrib., as stamper battery, stamper box, stamper press.
1890Pall Mall Gaz. 21 May 2/1 In a *stamper battery the stone is thrown into an oblong iron box, in which five bars of iron..are made to rise and fall alternately.
1872W. W. Smyth Mining Statist. 51 The *stamper boxes are fitted with false bottoms.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Stamper-press, a press for stamping sheet metal. 1911Encycl. Brit. XX. 47/1 The Dutch or stamper press, invented in Holland in the 17th century, was up to the early years of the 19th century almost exclusively employed in Europe for pressing oil-seeds.
▪ II. † ˈstamper, v. Obs. rare—1.
[? var. of stammer v.]
intr. To waver.
c1425St. Eliz. of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 114/28 Ᵹit stumbiþ sche neuere ne stamperþe ne waggiþ. |