Plural of flenser, referring to multiple workers who strip blubber from whales or seals on whaling vessels.
From flenser plus -s plural suffix; represents the collective crew members involved in blubber processing on whaling ships.
Whaling ships employed dozens of specialized workers—flensers, trymen who boiled the oil, sailmakers, navigators—making them some of the most complex industrial operations of the 1800s!
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