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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1438, 1578-1614, 1697
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Stampin(g, -yng, vbl. n. [Late ME and e.m.E. stamping (a1400-50); Stamp(e v.] a. The action of stamping in senses 1 and 2 of the verb, also attrib. Cf. Stramping vbl. n. b. The action of crushing metal ore. Also attrib. with troch, mylne, warkis.a. (1) 1375 Barb. vii 268.
Bot he had schort quhil at the met Sittyn, quhen he herd gret stampyng About the hous ?1438 Alex. ii 1449.
His steid that starting and stamping mais ?1438 Alex. ii 7404.
Lordingis … I … ȝow summondis … To put ȝour bodeis to assay, In bath of sueit and swordis hewin, And sturde stokking and stampin(2) 1578 J. Lee Hist. Ch. Scotl. (1860) I 392.
For twelf stand of cairts to be tikkits 10 s. It. to Jhon Mosman, goldsmyth, for stamping of thame 25 s. 1579 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I 151.
The quhilk day the lordis of secreit counsale continewis and prorogattis the stamping of the threttie twentie and ten schilling pecis 1579 Treasurer's Accounts XIII 281.
To Johnne Carmichael wardane of the cunȝehous for the overture maid be him of the stamping of the xxx, xx, x schilling peces and testanis 1697 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 255.
For stamping six thousand lead tickets for the comunionattrib. 1603 Philotus 489.
Quhen the stamping seale is set In wax … The prent thairof remayning may ȝe getb. 1592 Mining Rec. 81.
For ther is na thing meant of cunyeat metal quhilk I remit to his forming reforming stamping fyning per vt anteaattrib. and comb. 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I 165b.
To Johne Gib for … casting of mettell in to the stamparis and turnnyng of the stamping troches at v s. a day 1609 Mining Rec. 142.
Money debursit … vpoun the building of the fyning and stamping mylnis at the loch of Linlithgow 1614 Mining Rec. 164.
The saidis mynes fyre warkis stamping warkis and quick siluer warkis
