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- verb Present participle of
scrimshaw .
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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."
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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