Usually means: Remove blubber or skin from.
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  1. flense: Merriam-Webster
  2. flense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flense: Vocabulary.com
  6. flense: Wordnik
  7. flense: Wiktionary
  8. flense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flense: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Flense, flense: Dictionary.com
  12. Flense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. flense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Flense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. flense: FreeDictionary.org
  16. flense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flense: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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verb:  To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

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