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(uncountable) The manufacture of handcrafts by sailors on long voyages, especially as whittled from wood or bone.
(countable) Someone who scrimshaws.
To make an item of scrimshaw.
:* 2004', Moreover, he possesses a handsome army of '''scrimshandered chessmen whom we shall keep busy until either the ''Prophetess''’s departure or the ''Nellie''’s arrival. — David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas