English Explanatory Dictionary

flenser

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who flenses (cuts blubber from a whale carcass)

Word forms

flenser flensers

Etymology

From Danish flense or Dutch vlensen, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flintaz-, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”), from *(s)plei- (“to split”)..

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