flensed
Fat cut away
Flensed means stripped of blubber or skin, the past tense of flense.
The word belongs to whaling: a flensed whale has had its blubber cut away in long strips.
The image extends to anything stripped bare or cut to the bone: The budget was flensed of everything but essentials.
Wind flensed the flesh from our faces.
Marine mammal fat
- scrimshawEngraved whale ivory art
- NantucketMassachusetts island resort
- ambergrisWhale-produced perfume fixative
- spermacetiWhale-derived waxy substance
Melville · leviathan · Moby-Dick · Ahab · Pequod · Starbuck · Queequeg · whalebone
Removing outer layers
- skinningRemoving outer covering
- carvingShaping by cutting away
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- slicingCutting into portions
dissection · carcass · hide · pelt · membrane · tissue · blade · knife
Full of bloodshed
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- grislyShockingly horrific
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- visceralArising from deep instinct
raw · exposed · bloody · horrific · grotesque · repugnant · sickening · morbid
Marine mammal fat
- sustenanceMeans of living
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- rationsControlled food portions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
Inuit · indigenous · traditional · seal · walrus · Arctic · calories · fat
blubber
Marine mammal fat
- scrimshawEngraved whale ivory art
- NantucketMassachusetts island resort
- ambergrisWhale-produced perfume fixative
Melville · spermaceti · leviathan · Moby-Dick · Ahab · Pequod · Starbuck · Queequeg · whalebone · baleen
stripping
Removing outer layers
slicing · dissection · carcass · hide · pelt · membrane · tissue · blade · knife · filleting
gory
Full of bloodshed
visceral · raw · exposed · bloody · horrific · grotesque · repugnant · sickening · morbid · flayed
blubber
Marine mammal fat
- sustenanceMeans of living
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- rationsControlled food portions
survival · Inuit · indigenous · traditional · seal · walrus · Arctic · calories · fat · preservation
seafaring
Traveling by ocean vessel
galley · deck · rigging · schooner · mariner · oceanic · dockyard · slippery · greasy · stench