Crossword clues for flense
flense
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flense \Flense\, v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
the flensed carcass of a fur seal.
--U. S. Census
(1880).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flench, 1814, from Danish flense, perhaps, with other Germanic fli- words for "cutting, splitting" (for example flint, flinders) ultimately from PIE root *(s)plei- "to splice, split." Related: Flenser; flensing.
Wiktionary
vb. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Usage examples of "flense".
He peeled the socks off his pale, puckered feet, carefully unburdening himself of his armory of weapons: rifle, pistol and panga, the hidden slim-bladed flensing knife.
Their corpses had been stripped naked and mutilated with narrow-bladed flensing knives.
You would be put under the flensing beams, or have your actijot energized, full force!
Alacrity had seesawed between desperate hope and deep despair, praying to see Floyt show up with a pilfered ship, some way of deactivating the jots, a gun or the keys to the complex, but tormented that it would instead be Dincrist, with Sile and Constance, to take him away to a compound room with restraints, nerve rays, and flensing beams, all the obscene paraphernalia to which so many of the Betters seemed drawn.
The setting seemed to be an underground room or dungeon, and the old man had neuroprobes, flensing beams, and so forth.
Below, on the flensing deck, the whale had been opened, then abandoned only partially butchered, as the crew had to tend to the business of getting under way.
Arkadeil, but the easy slide of the flensing knife through his flesh shredded his concentration.
What I did have to worry about was that damned bright light in its sealed inverted glass by the flensing shed, it was powerful enough to enable me to be seen from the other houses on shore.
Hebridean hut within sniffing distance of a flensing shed, when the door opened and the lights came on.
The fire flayed at the enemy, flensing men off the front and flanks of the column, so that it seemed as if the enemy marched into an invisible mincing machine.
Emperor would be arrayed against the world, but Nairn was dead, his old bones flensing in a French grave.
Ryan had sheathed his flensing knife and now leveled the blaster at the group.
Ryan had already decided that he might have to draw his flensing knife and stab the man through the heart to silence him.
But with their sharp stone blades the children's small hands made efficient work of flensing and dismembering the big mammal.
I swam ashore, parked my scuba equipment above the high-water mark and made my way to the flensing shed, keeping its bulk between the light and myself as I went.