Definitions for flenses

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flenses flense

Spelling: [flens]

IPA: /flɛns/

Flenses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in flenses (eeflnss).

Definitions for flenses

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 flenses

1805-15; Danish flense or Dutch flensen

Examples for flenses

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.

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