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Definition of Flensed
1. flense [v] - See also: flense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flensed
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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