stamper

[ stam-per ]

noun

1. a person or thing that stamps.
2. (in a post office) an employee who applies postmarks and cancels postage stamps.
3. a pestle, especially one in a stamp mill.
4. a mold, usually of metal, from which disk recordings are pressed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stamper¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, stamper is from the Middle English word stampere. See stamp, -er ¹

Example Sentences

So many things can impact the pressing, including room temperature, the split second the stampers are pressed onto the hot, vinyl biscuit, and unknown factors no human can understand.

From Washington Post

Her mother, a leather stamper and pianist, was White; her father, a saddle maker and painter, was White Mountain Apache and Yaqui.

From Washington Post

He helped himself to a typewriter, red paper, carbon-copy paper, and a swastika stamper from the office where he worked.

From Literature

First a master disc is made of metal and converted into a stamper.

From BBC

Many of these factories, like toolmakers, metal stampers, and glassmakers, supplied the big automobile companies.

From Salon