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Definition of Scrimshanders
1. scrimshander [n] - See also: scrimshander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimshanders
Literary usage of Scrimshanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the New England Whalers by John Randolph Spears (1908)
"The tools used by the "scrimshanders," as these workers were called, were usually
as rude as those used by the aborigines, but, like the aborigines, ..."