Meaning & use
Flensed
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Stripped the skin, blubber, or fat from a whale, seal, or other large animal carcass.
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The whalers flensed the carcass on deck, a grim and bloody task.
Historic accounts describe crews who flensed several whales in a single day at the height of the hunting season.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Dutch or Danish whaling terminology, the word is almost exclusively associated with the historic whaling and sealing industries.
Words with a similar meaning
skinnedstripped
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