Wiktionary
scrimshawing
vb. (present participle of scrimshaw English)
Usage examples of "scrimshawing".
Her grandfather had carved it from a walrus tusk and done the lacy scrimshawing in his spare time, during the period he'd worked as a mail carrier in Nome just after the Alaska Gold Rush.
Running up to an elderly American sailor who was scrimshawing a whalebone beside Kamehameha's old brick palace, she cried, "Row me out to that boatl" But the sailor continued carving the whalebone and drawled, "Ma'am, it's best if you don't fight the laws of nature.
The off-duty sailors sat with their legs over the side, angling with crude rods, scrimshawing bones and narwhal tusks with knives and lampblack.