A worker, especially on a whaling ship, whose job is to strip blubber from whales or seals during processing.
From flense plus -er suffix meaning 'one who does'; part of the specialized occupational vocabulary of the whaling industry.
A flenser was one of the most skilled and dangerous jobs aboard a whaling ship—they earned good money but faced constant risk of being crushed by tons of slippery whale flesh!
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