Definition of Flensed

1. Verb. (past of flense) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flensed

1. flense [v] - See also: flense

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flensed

fleishig
fleme
flemer
flemers
flemes
flemish
flemished
flemishes
flemishing
flemit
flench
flenched
flenches
flenching
flense
flensed (current term)
flenser
flensers
flenses
flensing
flerd
flerovium
fleroxacin
flesh
flesh-colored
flesh-coloured
flesh-eating(a)
flesh-eating bacteria
flesh-fly
flesh and blood

Literary usage of Flensed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the by William Martin Conway (1906)
"The fish were now flensed where they were killed. ... If the shore was not near enough for that, they were flensed at sea and the making off 1 See article ..."

2. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the by William Martin Conway (1906)
"The fish were now flensed where they were killed. ... If the shore was not near enough for that, they were flensed at sea and the making off 2 See article ..."

3. An Account of the Arctic Regions with a History and Description of the by William Scoresby (1820)
"When the right whale is flensed, the crown or upper jaw, ... If a storm happens to arise before a fish can be flensed, a hawser is fastened to it, ..."

4. A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora by David Moore Lindsay (1911)
"When the exposed part has been flensed, the neck piece or kant is again pulled ... There was always a current where we flensed and this current would carry ..."

5. The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea Or Whales, with Memoir of Lacépède by Franco Mannino, Giuseppe La Licata (1861)
"When it is flensed, which is done in the same manner as in the sperm whale, to be afterwards described, the upper jaw, with all the baleen attached, ..."

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