Crossword-Solution: FLENSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flense | v. t. | To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLENSE (2)
The krang is the refuse, as I have said, and the men who separate the oily part from it are called "krangers." The "kings" throw the blubber in rough out of the "flense gut" to the "krangers" on deck; from them it is passed to the harpooners, who are the skinners.
There was a "skuary" on the screes, close to a thickly populated part of the rookery, but the majority of these birds made their nests right at the top of Cape Adare, from which point of vantage they surveyed the entire rookery, and a very sharp look-out they kept too, for no sooner did we start to flense a seal than a flock of them descended to gobble at the lumps of blubber as we threw them on the ground.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1946–2018).