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flensing

flensing is the present participle and gerund of flense.

Meaning of flense

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

Noun

flensing (plural flensings)

  1. The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber.
    Synonyms:
    tonguing

Synonyms of flensing

Forms of flensing

pluralflensings

Questions about flensing

What does flensing mean?
Flensing means the act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber.
What is flensing the present participle and gerund of?
Flensing is the present participle and gerund of flense.
What part of speech is flensing?
Flensing is a noun.
What is the plural of flensing?
The plural of flensing is flensings.

Words near flensing in the dictionary

  1. flense
  2. flensed
  3. flenser
  4. flensers
  5. flenses
  6. flensing
  7. flensings
  8. Fleras
  9. flerd
  10. flerds
  11. flerf

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