verb
- stripped blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)
Usage: nautical; whaling
Examples
- The crew flenched the whale on the deck of the ship.
- After the hunt, they flenched the seal to harvest its oil.
- The sailors flenched the carcass with sharp knives.
- It took hours to properly flench the massive whale.
- The captain ordered the men to flench the catch before nightfall.