ScrimshawApril 19th, 2010 by adminA long time to be gone.Dear Word Detective: This one may not travel well across the Atlantic, but, whilst wandering round the pleasant and historic port of Whitby (see Captain Cook), I looked into one of the many antique shops and noticed a cabinet, full of carvings in wood, bone, shell and other such, labeled ???Scrimshaw.??? At first I took that to be the name o