Meaning & use
Flensing
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Stripping the skin or blubber from a whale, seal, or other large animal carcass.
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The whalers spent hours flensing the carcass on the deck of the ship.
Historic flensing stations still dot the coastlines of old whaling towns.
A note on using this word
"Flense" comes from Danish and Norwegian flense, a term tied closely to the historical whaling industry.
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skinningstripping
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