flense
flense
Definition
flense (flens)
transitive verb flensed, flens′·ing
to cut blubber skin from (a whale, seal, etc.)
Etymology: < Du vlensen or Dan flense
flense
Usage Examples
Object
- knife: Would you be stopping your wailing.â Her voice worked on his flesh like a flensing knife.
Browse dictionary entries near flense
- Flemish
- Fleming
- fleetness
- fleeting
- Fleet Street
- fleet admiral
- fleet
- fleer
- fleecy
- fleece
- flesh
- flesh and blood
- flesh-colored
- flesh-eating
- flesh fly
- flesh meat
- flesh wound
- fleshiness
- fleshings
- fleshly
