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What (who) is flense - definition
REMOVING OF THE BLUBBER OR OUTER INTEGUMENT OF WHALES
Flenser; Flencing; Flensing knife; Flense
![Flensing at the Tyee Company whaling station at [[Murder Cove]], Alaska](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flensing a whale, Tyee Co, Tyee, Alaska, August 25, 1910 (COBB 19).jpeg?width=200 "Flensing at the Tyee Company whaling station at [[Murder Cove]], Alaska")
!["[[Smeerenburg]]". A whale (left foreground) is being flensed. Painting by [[Cornelis de Man]] (1639).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Traankokerijen bij het dorp Smerenburg Rijksmuseum SK-A-2355.jpeg?width=200 "\"[[Smeerenburg]]\". A whale (left foreground) is being flensed. Painting by [[Cornelis de Man]] (1639).")
Flense
·vt To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, ·etc.
flense
[fl?ns]
(also flench fl?n(t)?, flinch)
¦ verb slice the skin or fat from (a carcass, especially that of a whale).
Derivatives
flenser noun
Origin
C19: from Dan. flensa.
Flensing
Flensing is the removing of the blubber or outer integument of whales, separating it from the animal's meat. Processing the blubber (the subcutaneous fat) into whale oil was the key step that transformed a whale carcass into a stable, transportable commodity.
Wikipedia
Flensing
Flensing is the removing of the blubber or outer integument of whales, separating it from the animal's meat. Processing the blubber (the subcutaneous fat) into whale oil was the key step that transformed a whale carcass into a stable, transportable commodity. It was an important part of the history of whaling. The whaling that still continues in the 21st century is both industrial and aboriginal. In aboriginal whaling the blubber is rarely rendered into oil, although it may be eaten as muktuk.
Examples of use of flense
1. But the men who harpoon, flense and sell these whales at four small–scale coastal hunting communities have another word for it: tradition.
2. But the men who harpoon, flense and sell these whales at four small–scale coastal hunting communities have another word for it: tradition. Coastal people have been eating whale for 400 years and we have a right to decide what we eat,‘‘ declared Yoshinori Shoji, head of the Gaibo Hogei whaling company, based in Wada, a two–hour drive east of Tokyo.