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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stampit, ppl. adj. Also: stampitt, -ed, stampt. [e.m.E. stampt (1600), stamped (1611); Stamp(e v.] a. Marked or embossed with an impression, design, decoration, etc. in senses 2 c - h of the verb. Cf. also Stamp(e n. 1, 2 and Strampit ppl. adj. b. Of cloth: ? = a above in sense 2 f or 2 h of the verb or ? finished in a particular manner involving stamping or beating. c. Of fruit: Crushed, pounded.(1) 1580 Crail B. Ct. 8 April.
[To repay] … the sowm off tua hundreth lib. vsuale mony of this realme … penneis and stampit plakis exceptit 1582–3 Ayr B. Acc. 36.
Item to Mr. Johne Prestoun twa stampitt xxx s. pecis 1585–6 Forres B. Ct. 28 Feb.
Sax stampit testanis 1592 Aboyne Rec. 174. 16… Cochran-Patrick Coinage I 102.
To reduce the heall money to syluer of x d. fyne to haue had cowrs for xxx s. the ounce the stampit plakis and lyonis only exceptit(2) 1602 Colville Paraenese 117.
In sum places be vsit (for marques to inter to thair table) billȝetts of stampit paper or kardes 1608 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 40.
Six stampet tikkets of leid to be givin unto … passage boits … on the Sabboth day(3) 1615 Haddington Corr. 289.
Tua stampit chyres 1638 Elphinstone Mun. 26.
Ane stampit ledder cushoun 1640 Brechin Test. V 291.
Nyntein stain … of old stampit tin 1679 Robertson Cullen Ch. Ann. 80.
[Nicholas Dunbar] mortified a large stamped bason of brass to the Church of Cullen for … the celebration of the Holy Sacramentb. 1612 McKay Kilmarnock 308.
Ane stand of stampit crambassie vorset courteinis1621
J. Bell
Acc. Bk. in Glasg. Her. (1864) 25 June.
8 stik colorit stampit camelot 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII 356.
A stamped taffety night goun. A stamped calligoe pockc. 1683 Reid Sc. Gard'ner 174.
For every three pound of stampt fruit, use a chopin of water
