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English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
scrimshander (countable and uncountable, plural scrimshanders)
- (countable) Someone who scrimshaws.
- Synonym of scrimshaw (“manufacture of items by sailors from bone, etc”)
Verb
scrimshander (third-person singular simple present scrimshanders, present participle scrimshandering, simple past and past participle scrimshandered)
- Synonym of scrimshaw
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN: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.