flenser

From Danish flense or Dutch vlensen, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flintaz-, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”), from *(s)plei- (“to split”).^[1].

• Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)

flenser (plural flensers)

1. One who flenses (cuts blubber from a whale carcass)

• “flense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Flenser”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “flense”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Fleners, Flesner, fresnel