Third-person singular present tense of flense, meaning he/she/it strips blubber from whales or seals.
From flense plus -es suffix for third person singular; standard English verb conjugation of the Dutch-origin whaling term.
The verb flense appears in countless ship logs and whaling records, documenting one of history's largest industries—but it's almost unknown to modern English speakers!
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