stamping mill

(nožná stupa, lamalnica) – a tool in the form of a trough for separating the woody part of hemp from the fiber. It stood on four legs and the hemp stalks were pounded in it with a heavy wooden pestle or piston. It was used in western Slovakia; it is a traditional device for crushing and processing various materials, especially in folk culture: A wooden container made of a hollowed-out trunk, in which cereals and other materials were crushed with a stone pestle. Foot-operated device, where a person stood on a lever and, by transferring his weight, raised and lowered a pestle into a hole in a hollowed-out trunk. It was used for crushing flax seed (oil pressing) or for breaking flax and hemp. Water-wheel driven device that raised and lowered hammers (hammers) into holes in the trunk, used to crush ore, seeds, or to break flax and hemp stalks. Stupa is also one of the names for a washboard, a device for treating textiles.