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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stamp \Stamp\ (st[a^]mp) verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stamped} (st[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. {Stamping}.] [OE. stampen; akin to LG. & D. stampen, G. stampfen, OHG. stampf[=o]n, Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. step. See {Step}, verb (used without an object), and cf. {Stampede}.]
1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. --Shak.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden.
2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
3. To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small. --Deut. ix. 21.
4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
5. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
God . . . has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being. --Locke.
6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
{To stamp out}, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stamping \Stamp"ing\, a. & n. from {Stamp}, v.
{Stamping ground}, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence (Colloq.), the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort; in this sense, often called {stomping ground}. [U.S.]
{Stamping machine}, a machine for forming metallic articles or impressions by stamping.
{Stamping mill} (Mining), a stamp mill.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "stamping": Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, case, casemaking, casing-in, coinage, coining, collating, collating mark, counterfeiting, cover, dust cover, dust jacket, folding, footband, forgery, gathering, gluing-off, hard binding, headband, jacket, library binding, lining, lining-up, mechanical binding, mintage, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stapling, striking, tailband, tipping, trimming, wire stitching, wrapper
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