stamp, verb transitive
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, British EnglishShow more Afrikaans; also formerly found in British English in this sense, but obsolete since 1764, according to the OED.
obs.
To pound or crush (maize kernels).
1883 O.E.A. Schreiner Story of Afr. Farm 19Two, who stamped mealies in a wooden block, held the great stampers in their hands.
[1948 O. Walker Kaffirs Are Lively 79More often than not it is the sound of women ‘stomping’ the mealies — that is, crushing them into a powder with big pestles in hollowed tree-trunks.]
To pound or crush (maize kernels).
- Derivatives:
- So stamped participial adjective (see also stamped mealies); stamping verbal noun.1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. IV. 85Before the husk can be separated from the pure grain, a second threshing, or stamping is necessary.
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