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单词 scrimshawer
释义

scrimshawern.

Brit. /ˈskrɪmˌʃɔːə/, U.S. /ˈskrɪmˌʃɔər/, /ˈskrɪmˌʃɑər/
Forms: see scrimshaw v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: scrimshaw v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < scrimshaw v. + -er suffix1.Attested in a wide variety of forms in the 19th and early 20th centuries (see forms at scrimshaw v.); the more usual word is now scrimshander.
Originally U.S. Nautical.
A person who makes scrimshaw (scrimshaw n. 2); = scrimshander n. 3.
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1853 G. Payson Golden Dreams & Leaden Realities vi. 62 Making ornamental dippers out of coconut shells, and a certain necromantic puzzle, for which one of the crew, himself a confirmed schrimpschonger, had furnished the model.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xxi. 258 Such pieces [of whalebone] as were useful to the ‘scrimshoners’ for ornamenting their nicknacks.
1913 Vineyard July 607 One of our men, a prime seaman and an ardent scrimshawer, was making a walking-stick.
1938 Sydney Morning Herald 12 Nov. 21/ 4 (headline) The odd art of the scrimshoner.
1977 J. W. Curlin & M. R. Lee in Congr. & Oceans: Marine Affairs in 94th Congr. (Congress. Res. Service) i. 30 For scrimshawers, access to existing stocks of whale bone and teeth was viewed as necessary to the existence of that art.
2013 J. Newton Savage Hist. vii. 107 Some more dedicated scrimshawers carried around a set of special tools.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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