Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. boots or shoes.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: stampers shooes.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary Stampers, shooes.
1612		Dekker ‘Of Clapperdogeons’ O per se O N: He loves to keepe himselfe warme, wearing a patched Castor (a Cloake) for his upper roabe, under that a Togmans a (Gowne) with high Stampers (shooes) the soles an inch thicke pegged.
1641		R. Brome Jovial Crew Act I: Strike up, Piper, a merry, merry dance / That we on our stampers may foot it and prance.
1651		T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By these good stampers, upper and nether duds; I’le nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck, Though glimmer’d in the fambles, I cly the chates.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 52: Stampers, The shoes.
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Stampers, Shooes.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1703		Hell Upon Earth 6: Stampers, Shoes.
1718		C. Hitchin Regulator 19: Stampers, alias Shoes.
1728		Defoe Street Robberies Considered 34: Stampers, Boots.
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 112: A Pair of Shooes A Pair of Stampers.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict.
1768		(con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in Groom (1999) xxix: Stampers Shoes.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 403: The poor toddlers [...] stuck in the mud, and were compelled to stop and pick up their stampers.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 309: To my worthy friend, Sir John Blubber, Knt. I give and bequeath my padders, my stampers, my buckets, otherwise my boots.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 101: STAMPERS, shoes. Ancient cant.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 80: Stampers, shoes.
1920		A. Baer Says ‘Bugs’ Baer 25 Sept. [synd. col.] One of those kind [i.e. of hats] that were so popular [...] with bulldog-toed stampers and pinch-back coats.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 298/1: stampers shoes.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 17: sharkskin bell-bottoms and go-go stampers.

2. (UK Und.) feet or legs.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 20: From thy stampers then remove / Thy drawers and lets prig in sport.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 17: Feet – Stampers. [Ibid.] 18: Legs – Stampers.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 80: Stampers, [...] feet.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 177: I set stamper on the prickly lawn.

3. stairs.

a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: stampers stairs.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1821		Flash Dict.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 80: Stampers, [...] stairs, etc.