Meaning & use
Flense
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To strip the skin or blubber from a whale or other animal carcass.
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Whalers would flense the carcass on deck before rendering the blubber into oil.
The processing station is where workers flense and butcher the catch.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Dutch or Danish whaling terminology; the tool used for this task is called a flensing knife.
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skinstrip
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