Definitions for flense

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Spelling: [flens]

IPA: /flɛns/

Flense is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in flense (eeflns).

Definitions for flense

verb (used with object)

1. to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.).
2. to strip off (blubber or skin).

Origin of flense

1805-15; Danish flense or Dutch flensen

Examples for flense

It took us two hours to kill our first whale, and four to flense it.

I scarcely believe that in the course of the day we met with a single piece of ice large enough to flense a seal upon.