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flense
[ flens ]
verb (used with object)
- to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.).
- to strip off (blubber or skin).
flense
/ flɛns; flɪntʃ; flɛntʃ /
verb
- tr to strip (a whale, seal, etc) of (its blubber or skin)
Derived Forms
- ˈflenser, noun
Other Words From
- flenser noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of flense1
Word History and Origins
Origin of flense1
Example Sentences
According to Hussey, the harbor had a “most appalling stench” from the dead whales moored in the harbor awaiting flensing.
"The Offer," which confuses a baring-it-all origin story with a botched whale flensing, does not substantively change that.
He may create clothes capable of spooking you with their Sweeney Todd aura or look of flensed anatomies.
The new book is bloated and unwieldy, however; it lacks the blunt power of its predecessor, which was stark and swift, flensed of artifice.
Dad slammed drums in and out of the blaster, a bellowing beast that flensed 55-gallon steel drums to bare metal by bombarding them with steel shot.
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