The action of stripping blubber or fat from whales or seals, typically to produce whale oil for industrial and household use.
From flense plus -ing suffix; the present participle form of the Dutch-origin verb used in the whaling and seal-hunting industries.
Flensing stations could process a whole whale in a few hours, turning it into thousands of barrels of valuable oil—whale oil lit the world's lamps before petroleum!
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