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stamping
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure. 2 A part made by such a method. vb. (present participle of stamp English)
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stamping (also known as pressing ) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of stamping.
I became furious, knocking at the door, stamping my feet, fretting and fuming, and accompanying this useless hubbub with loud cries.
The insatiable few were still clapping and stamping assiduously when Magda, after taking innumerable calls, at last came off the stage.
Captain Barker, stamping his foot and pointing to the cluster over his head.
Sharp, piercing eyes appeared from beneath, beastlike men with bushy, unkempt beards stood straight up out of the snow, raising their cloaks over their heads and shoulders and shaking the powder off, stamping their feet to bring feeling back to their frozen members, blowing puffs of vapor on their hands and rubbing their dry, cracked palms together.
They spoke in voices both human and mareish, words punctuated by snorts, flicks of their tails, and the stamping of hooves.
There was a sand-coloured army Land-Rover waiting under a huge marula tree off to one side of the strip, and three troopers saluted Peter Fungabera with a stamping of boots that raised dust and a slapping of rifle-butts.
I could almost wish it might either cure or kill me, for I am weary of lying here like an ox dying of the murrain, when tambours are beating, horses stamping, and trumpets sounding without.
Unfortunately, other newsies had the same idea, so there were four of us at the intersection of State and Pearl, one on each corner, stamping our feet to keep out the cold and bawling out: Extra!
Commander Van Winkle, Sergeant Major Shiro, and Sergeant Major Parant, also guests of honor, were right in there with the rest of them, shouting and whistling and stamping their feet.
Alice, who came in, stamping her feet to rid her pattens of the clogged snow, and followed by an ancient with very few teeth but a crafty eye.
Around the blaze, couples had begun a stamping ring-dance, to the music of a lame guitarist, a hunchbacked drummer, and a blind man who sang in plangent Haisun.
Germyn was too busy to grieve, so he lived on, no theorist, not very cerebral, but glorying in a full gut, in taking a strong woman, in waking and lying extra minutes idly on a bed of polyurethane foam raped from its cushioning job in a stamping mill.
Burrich went stamping about the room, cursing things, and letting the porridge burn.
She had mental images of herself pummeling his chest with both fists, stamping on his boots with both feet, and twisting his quizzing glass into a corkscrew while screeching at him like a demented night owl.
Remo wondered briefly what exactly Folcroft Sanitarium was and what kind of nit would waste his time stamping and restamping a cheap, stained, easily replaceable coffee mug.