flensed; flensing
: to strip of blubber or skin
flense a whale
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Two dozen students flense the whale today; in a year-and-a-half, another group will articulate her.
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Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
With the help of an excavator, great strips of blubber are flensed from Punctuation's body, each landing on the sand with a deep thud.
—Nick Hawkins, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
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Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
With the help of an excavator, great strips of blubber are flensed from Punctuation's body, each landing on the sand with a deep thud.
—Nick Hawkins, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
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“Flense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flense. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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