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Definition of Flensers
1. flenser [n] - See also: flenser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flensers
Literary usage of Flensers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Natural History by John Davidson Godman (1836)
"The flensers commence with the belly and under jaw, being the only part then
above water. The blubber, in pieces of half a ton each, is received on deck, ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"... then rudely but rapidly scraping, with blunt knives or stone flensers, the
hair off in large patches at every stroke; the skin is then air dried, ..."
3. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"... then rudely, but rapidly, scraping with blunt knives or stone flensers the
hair off in large patches at every stroke; the skin is then air-dried, ..."
4. The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology by Archibald Geikie (1887)
"... might fancifully compare to deep parallel gashes made by the flensers across
the whale's back (Fig. 62). Among the higher mountains, where sub-aerial ..."
5. The Scenery of Scotland Viewed in Connection with Its Physical Geology by Archibald Geikie (1901)
"... across along the joints into open cracks which one might fancifully compare
to deep parallel gashes made by the flensers across the whale's back (Fig. ..."
6. The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to Spitzbergen by John Campion Wells (1876)
"The flensers, with their sharp spades, dug out and stowed away the precious
blubber with many a song and cheery laugh, turning the great mass over with ..."
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