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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flense \Flense\, v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen,
   Scot. flinch.]
   To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal,
   etc.
   [1913 Webster]

         the flensed carcass of a fur seal.       --U. S. Census
                                                  (1880).
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flense
    v 1: strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)