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n. 1 (context uncountable English) The manufacture of handcrafts by sailors on long voyages, especially as whittled from wood or bone. 2 (context countable English) Someone who scrimshaws. vb. To make an item of scrimshaw.
Usage examples of "scrimshander".
This was where the major merchant caravans from Luskan put in, where the dwarves came to trade, and where the vast majority of craftsman, scrimshanders, and scrimshaw evaluators, were housed.
There was wealth here, and for those nimble and talented enough to be a scrimshander, someone who could transform the ivorylike bone of a knucklehead trout into an artistic carving, a comfortable living could be made with a minimum amount of work.
His practiced, nimble fingers adapted easily to the instruments of the scrimshander, and he had even been elected as the council spokesman of one of the villages.
As the only true scrimshander in Lonelywood, Regis was the sole person in the town with reason or desire to travel regularly to Bryn Shander, the principle settlement and market hub of Ten-Towns.
He thought he had found his niche, a comfortable existencemore comfortable still with the aid of the stolen ruby pendantin a lucrative career as a scrimshander, carving the ivorylike bone of the knucklehead into marvelous little trinkets.
Only a scrimshander worth his salt could craft something so meticulous, Clem knew.
Some of them dated as far back as 1720, but her favourite had always been the fragment of twenty-thousand-year-old fossilized mammoth tusk, exquisitely carved by Bonnie Schulte, one of the most accomplished scrimshanders in America.