Crossword-Solution: MINCERS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

King stood one side and watched the endless procession up and down, up and down, the strollers, the mincers, the languid, the nervous steppers; noted the eye-shots, the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never can be called to account for the mischief it does; but not a sound did he hear of the repartee and the laughter.

Some were passing pieces of blubber from the hatch to the mincers; some were mincing the blubber on those pieces with heavy knives much like a butcher’s cleaver with a handle at each end; some were carrying the minced pieces to the try-pots; and some were stirring the mess in the pots or feeding the fire, with long, two-pronged iron forks in their hands.

When the blubber had been cut this way, the “horse-pieces” were tossed on deck and taken to the mincers.

The mincers were men—usually two—who wielded heavy, two-handled knives about two feet long, with a handle at each end; the knives being a sort of a cross between a butcher’s cleaver and a carpenter’s draw-knife, or more nearly, perhaps, a cleaver with a handle at each end.

The mincers work against the end of a heavy block, or horse, at the height of their belts—if they happen to have {93} belts—and chop and slice the flesh side of the blubber, with a peculiar rolling motion of the heavy knife.