Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flense \Flense\, v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen,
   Scot. flinch.]
   To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal,
   etc.

         the flensed carcass of a fur seal.       --U. S. Census
                                                  (1880).