Third-person singular present tense of flench, meaning he/she/it strips blubber from whales or seals.
From flench plus -es suffix for third person singular; follows standard English verb conjugation patterns from the root Dutch vlenzen.
This word exists almost entirely in historical whaling records and maritime dictionaries—it's a ghost word from an industry that no longer exists in most countries!
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