flensing

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English

Verb

flensing

  1. present participle 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

flensing (plural flensings)

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