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Stamp hammer

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stamp \Stamp\, n.
   1. The act of stamping, as with the foot.

   2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on
      other bodies, as a die.

            'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without
            alloy.                                --Dryden.

   3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an
      impression.

            That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like
            his stamp, makes basest metals pass.  --Dryden.

   4. that which is marked; a thing stamped.

            hanging a golden stamp about their necks. --Shak.

   5. [F. estampe, of german origin. See {Stamp}, v. t.] A
      picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a
      cut; a plate. [Obs.]

            At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the
            several edifices which are most famous for their
            beauty and magnificence.              --Addison.

   6. An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or
      tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is
      paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.

   7. Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the
      government at a fixed price, and required by law to be
      affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence
      that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a
      receipt stamp, etc.

   8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as
      paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

   9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything
      as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as,
      these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures
      bear the stamp of a divine origin.

            Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us,
            that an adamant suspends the attraction of the
            loadstone.                            --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.

   10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp,
       or of a different stamp.

             A soldier of this season's stamp.    --Shak.

   11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or
       steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a
       pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

   12. A half-penny. [Obs.] --au. & Fl.

   13. pl. Money, esp. paper money. [Slang, U.S.]

   {Stamp act}, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing
      a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the
      American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped
      materials to be null an void.

   {Stamp collector}, an officer who receives or collects stamp
      duties; one who collects postage or other stamps.

   {Stamp duty}, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment
      used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc.,
      the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a
      stamp. [Eng.]

   {Stamp hammer}, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and
      falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill.

   {Stamp head}, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or
      lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a
      stamp mill.

   {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with
      stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore.

   {Stamp note}, a stamped certificate from a customhouse
      officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain
      of a ship as freight. [Eng.]

   {Stamp office}, an office for the issue of stamps and the
      reception of stamp duties.
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