flenchflinchflensev.

/flɛnʃ/

/flɪnʃ/

/flɛns/

Forms: Also flence, flinse.

Etymology: < Danish flense of same meaning; the word with wider application is found in Norwegian as flinsa, flunsa to flay, tear off.

1. transitive. To cut up and slice the fat from (a whale or flayed seal); to slice (the blubber) from the bones of the whale.

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to cut in1839

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve > whale or seal

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1814 W. Scott Lines to Duke of Buccleuch 13 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott The Islesmen of Sanda were..flinching..the blubber to boil.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 292 Before a whale can be flensed, as the operation of taking off the fat and whale~bone is called.

1823 G. W. Manby Voy. Greenland 65 For the purpose of ‘flinsing’ or stripping it of its blubber.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flense.

2. To flay or skin (a seal); to strip off (the skin of a seal).

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > cut up whale or seal [verb (transitive)] > to flay or skin (a seal)

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flench1874

1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 33 The marvellous rapidity..with which our men would skin, or as it is termed, ‘flinch’ the beast [seal].

1875 Capt. Gray in Buckland Log-bk. 312 The [seal] skins are then flenched.

1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. iii. 114 The hunter lies to at an ice-floe to flense upon it a seal that has been shot.

Derivatives

ˈflencher n. ( also ˈflenser) one who flenches or flenses whales.

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > one who skins whales

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cutter-in1843

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 299 The flensers commence with the belly and under jaw.

ˈflenching n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun]

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > cutting up whale or seal

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1814 W. Scott Diary 11 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 182 The crew..with their long flinching knives with which they cut up the whales.

1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise iv. 50 The cutting up or ‘flinching’ of the fish.

ˈflensing n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun]

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > cutting up whale or seal

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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 301 During the progress of the flensing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	flench
释义	flenchflinchflensev. /flɛnʃ//flɪnʃ//flɛns/ Forms: Also flence, flinse. Etymology: < Danish flense of same meaning; the word with wider application is found in Norwegian as flinsa, flunsa to flay, tear off. 1. transitive. To cut up and slice the fat from (a whale or flayed seal); to slice (the blubber) from the bones of the whale. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > cut up whale or seal [verb (transitive)] > cut up whale or seal flench1814 to cut in1839 scarf1851 spade1887 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve > whale or seal flench1814 1814 W. Scott Lines to Duke of Buccleuch 13 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott The Islesmen of Sanda were..flinching..the blubber to boil. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 292 Before a whale can be flensed, as the operation of taking off the fat and whale~bone is called. 1823 G. W. Manby Voy. Greenland 65 For the purpose of ‘flinsing’ or stripping it of its blubber. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flense. 2. To flay or skin (a seal); to strip off (the skin of a seal). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > cut up whale or seal [verb (transitive)] > to flay or skin (a seal) jacka1795 flench1874 1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 33 The marvellous rapidity..with which our men would skin, or as it is termed, ‘flinch’ the beast [seal]. 1875 Capt. Gray in Buckland Log-bk. 312 The [seal] skins are then flenched. 1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. iii. 114 The hunter lies to at an ice-floe to flense upon it a seal that has been shot. Derivatives ˈflencher n. ( also ˈflenser) one who flenches or flenses whales. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > one who skins whales flencher1820 cutter-in1843 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 299 The flensers commence with the belly and under jaw. ˈflenching n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] flenching1814 flensing1820 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > cutting up whale or seal flenching1814 flensing1820 1814 W. Scott Diary 11 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 182 The crew..with their long flinching knives with which they cut up the whales. 1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise iv. 50 The cutting up or ‘flinching’ of the fish. ˈflensing n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] flenching1814 flensing1820 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > cutting up whale or seal flenching1814 flensing1820 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 301 During the progress of the flensing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1814
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