[-ING2.] That stamps with the feet; characterized by stamping with the feet. Hence Stampingly adv.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., E 2. One as if he had ben playning a clay floore stampingly trode the stage so harde with his feete, that [etc.]. Ibid. (1596), Saffron Walden, O 2. Hee cald all the World asses … with the stampingest cursing and tearing he could vtter it.
1599. Breton, Wil of Wit (Grosart), 18/2. The gallant shewe of stamping steeds.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 106, ¶ 8. The Stamping Dances of the West-Indians or Hottentots.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 876. A stamping movement of the foot.
1903. Kipling, Five Nations, White Horses, vi. By day with stamping squadrons,… Creep up the wise White Horses.
