flensing
Blubber removal process
Flensing is the act of stripping blubber or skin from a whale or seal carcass.
The term belongs to whaling and sealing industries, where workers called flensers cut away fat in long strips for rendering into oil.
The word occasionally appears in violent or horror contexts to describe any methodical removal of flesh: The killer's flensing of the body suggested expertise.
Marine mammal fat
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
- whaleboatDouble-ended hunting vessel
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- factory shipShip that processes seafood
oil extraction · spermaceti · ambergris · whalebone · scrimshaw · whaler · pelagic · cetacean
Arctic indigenous people
- AleutAlaska archipelago native
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
- blubberMarine mammal fat
sealskin · ulu · umiak · traditional · ancestral · arctic · whale hunt · communal
blubber
Marine mammal fat
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
- whaleboatDouble-ended hunting vessel
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
factory ship · oil extraction · spermaceti · ambergris · whalebone · scrimshaw · whaler · pelagic · cetacean · baleen
Inuit
Arctic indigenous people
- AleutAlaska archipelago native
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
blubber · sealskin · ulu · umiak · traditional · ancestral · arctic · whale hunt · communal · ceremonial
blubber
Marine mammal fat
fleshing · fat · skin · hide · tissue · sinew · cleaver · trimming · rendering · tallow
flensingpreserving
Protecting from deterioration
embalming · mummifying · conserving · whale conservation · taxidermy
flensinghunting
Pursuing wild game
harpooning · catching · killing · living · whale watching