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Verb

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flensing

  1. present participle and gerund 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

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flensing (plural flensings)

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