flense
Strip whale fat
To flense is to strip the blubber or skin from a whale or seal.
The word belongs to the vocabulary of whaling and sealing, describing the process of cutting away fat in long strips from a carcass: The crew flensed the whale on deck.
Occasionally used figuratively for any thorough stripping away.
Marine mammal fat
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
- scrimshawEngraved whale ivory art
- baleenWhale's filtering bristles
- flukeChance stroke of luck
spout · breach · cetacean · bowhead · sperm whale · humpback · minke · fin whale
strip
Narrow elongated piece
pare · scrape · carve · fillet · shear · trim · debone · gut · dress · clean
blubber
Marine mammal fat
fluke · spout · breach · cetacean · bowhead · sperm whale · humpback · minke · fin whale · blue whale
gory
Full of bloodshed
grotesque · visceral · bloody · grueling · morbid · repulsive · raw · brutal · savage · primal
whaler
Cetacean hunting vessel
maritime · nautical · ship · ocean · sailor · galley · helm · rigging · harpooner