flensing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of flense
    1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 59, All he knew about flensing knives was that they were used to strip blubber from whale carcasses.

noun

  1. The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber.

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