flense

verb

ˈflen(t)s 

flensed; flensing

transitive verb

: to strip of blubber or skin

flense a whale

Examples of flense in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two dozen students flense the whale today; in a year-and-a-half, another group will articulate her. — 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

Word History

Etymology

Dutch flensen or Danish & Norwegian flense

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for flense

• cense
• dense
• fence
• hence
• lense
• mense
• sense
• tense
• thence
• whence
• antisense
• commonsense