flenchflinchflensev.
/flɛnʃ//flɪnʃ//flɛns/ 1. transitive. To cut up and slice the fat from (a whale or flayed seal); to slice (the blubber) from the bones of the whale.
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1814 W. Scott Lines to Duke of Buccleuch 13 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott The Islesmen of Sanda were..flinching..the blubber to boil.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 292 Before a whale can be flensed, as the operation of taking off the fat and whale~bone is called.
1823 G. W. Manby Voy. Greenland 65 For the purpose of ‘flinsing’ or stripping it of its blubber.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flense.
2. To flay or skin (a seal); to strip off (the skin of a seal).
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1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 33 The marvellous rapidity..with which our men would skin, or as it is termed, ‘flinch’ the beast [seal].
1875 Capt. Gray in Buckland Log-bk. 312 The [seal] skins are then flenched.
1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. iii. 114 The hunter lies to at an ice-floe to flense upon it a seal that has been shot.
Derivatives
ˈflencher n. ( also ˈflenser) one who flenches or flenses whales.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 299 The flensers commence with the belly and under jaw.
ˈflenching n.
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1814 W. Scott Diary 11 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 182 The crew..with their long flinching knives with which they cut up the whales.
1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise iv. 50 The cutting up or ‘flinching’ of the fish.
ˈflensing n.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 301 During the progress of the flensing.
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