Similar words: scrimshank, crimson, scrim, scrimp, scrimmage, discriminate, discriminant, indiscriminate. Meaning: n. a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers.
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1) He wore round his neck a scrimshaw on a silver chain.
2) What did early scrimshaw artists use for pigment?
3) Can you imagine scrimshaw so finely detailed that even the texture is captured in the work?
4) This is Ronnie's third color scrimshaw, but the first one of this magnitude.
5) Scrimshaw is the decoration of bone or ivory objects, such as whale teeth and walrus tusks, with fanciful designs.
6) She scraped the mud away and revealed a piece of scrimshaw.
7) The early Inuit (Eskimos) produced such utilitarian objects as harpoon shafts and bucket handles out of ivory and often etched them with geometric or curving patterns. See also scrimshaw.
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