stamping shopn. the ‘shop’ in a needle-factory containing machinery for punching the eyes of needles.
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxxii. §6449 The wires are taken to the ‘stamping shop’, where the first germ of an eye is given to each half of every wire.