flense, v.

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Posted by Simone Muench
February 15, 2007 11:28 PM
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1. to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.).
2. to strip off (blubber or skin).

"the uncaged waters gasping against hasp and hull,
salt fumes hissing, scalps flensed from bile-dark brine."

—Suji Kwock Kim, "Nocturne in C"
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