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Definition of Scrimshawing
1. scrimshaw [v] - See also: scrimshaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimshawing
Literary usage of Scrimshawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera: A Naturalist's Account of the Modern by Roy Chapman Andrews (1916)
""scrimshawing," or drawing upon whale's teeth, also helps to while away many
weary hours when the ship lies still in a tropic calm. ..."
2. The Provincetown Book by Nancy W Paine Smith (1922)
"scrimshawing With a mahogany log, whale-bone, a lathe and a knife they made ...
But those not skillful with the knife and the lathe could do scrimshawing. ..."
3. The Provincetown Book by Nancy W. Paine Smith (1922)
"scrimshawing With a mahogany log, whale-bone, a lathe and a knife they made ...
But those not skillful with the knife and the lathe could do scrimshawing. ..."
4. The Story of the New England Whalers by John Randolph Spears (1908)
""scrimshawing" and "gamming" alone remain to be considered in the life of whaler
crews. ... "scrimshawing" was the work of the whaler artists. ..."
5. Reminiscences of Old Hawaii by Sereno Edwards Bishop, Lorrin Andrews Thurston (1916)
"Our ship took on a supply of guava firewood, some of which went to the captain's
lathe for '' scrimshawing,'' in which much sperm-whale jawbone and teeth ..."
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