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Flench

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

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    To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

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flensenounTo strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
flaynoun(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.
beflayverb(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To flay; strip; peel.
blenchnounA deceit; a trick.
disfleshverb(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
sculpnoun(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
flawterverb(obsolete, transitive) To scrape or pare (a skin, etc.).
unpaunchverbTo eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
peltnounThe skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
crimpnounA fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
flitchnounThe flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
flingnounA short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
fleshenverb(ambitransitive) To make or become fleshy; fill out
gillnoun(zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
skinnoun(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
fleecenoun(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
slimenounSoft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
unfleshverb(transitive) To strip of flesh.
fleshnounThe soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
deskinnounTo remove the skin of

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