flense Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)

WordNet

Flense transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.
Definitions
  1. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
    the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).

Webster 1913