flench

Verb

flense (third-person singular simple present flenses, present participle flensing, simple past and past participle flensed)

1. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
   • In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 198

   Synonyms:

   flay, fleece, skin