stamping

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stamp/stamp/

▶verb

• 1 bring down (one's foot) heavily on the ground or an object.

  ■ crush, flatten, or remove with a heavy blow from one's foot.

  ■ crush or pulverize (ore).

• 2 walk with heavy, forceful steps.

• 3 (stamp something out) suppress or put an end to something.

• 4 impress a pattern or mark on with a stamp.

  ■ impress (a pattern or mark).

  ■ cut out using a die or mould.

• 5 fix a postage stamp to.

▶noun

• 1 an instrument for stamping a pattern or mark, especially an engraved or inked block or die.

  ■ a mark or pattern made by a stamp.

• 2 a characteristic or distinctive impression or quality.

  ■ a particular type of person or thing.

• 3 a small adhesive piece of paper recording payment of postage.

• 4 an act or sound of stamping the foot.

• 5 a block for crushing ore in a stamp mill.

– derivatives
stamper noun.

– origin ME: of Gmc origin; reinforced by OFr. estamper ‘to stamp’; cf. stomp.