Word Meanings - STAMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who stamps. 2. An instrument for pounding or stamping.

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• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• POUNDER
  1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• POUNDING
  1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• POUNDRATE
  A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• STAMP
  Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. 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
• POUND-BREACH
  The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• STAMPER
  1. One who stamps. 2. An instrument for pounding or stamping.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• INSTRUMENTALNESS
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.
• INSTRUMENTIST
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• INSTRUMENTARY
  Instrumental.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• IMPOUND
  To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.
• PROPOUNDER
  One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.