| 单词 |
flense |
| 释义 |
flench, flinch, flense, v.|flɛnʃ, flɪnʃ, flɛns|
Also flence, flinse.
[a. Da. flense of same meaning; the word with wider application is found in Norw. as flinsa, flunsa to flay, tear off.]
1. trans. To cut up and slice the fat from (a whale or flayed seal); to slice (the blubber) from the bones of the whale.
1814Scott To Dk. Buccleugh 13 Aug. in Lockhart, The Islesmen of Sanda were..flinching..the blubber to boil. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 292 Before a whale can be flensed, as the operation of taking off the fat and whale⁓bone is called. 1823G. W. Manby Voy. Greenl. 65 For the purpose of ‘flinsing’ or stripping it of its blubber. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Flense.
2. To flay or skin (a seal); to strip off (the skin of a seal).
1874Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 33 The marvellous rapidity..with which our men would skin, or as it is termed, ‘flinch’ the beast [seal]. 1875Capt. Gray in Buckland Log-bk. 312 The [seal] skins are then flenched. 1881Leslie tr. Nordenskiöld's Voy. Vega iii. 114 The hunter lies to at an ice-floe to flense upon it a seal that has been shot.
Hence ˈflenching, ˈflensing vbl. n.; also ˈflencher, ˈflenser, one who flenches or flenses whales.
1814Scott Diary 11 Aug. in Lockhart, The crew..with their long flinching knives with which they cut up the whales. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 299 The flensers commence with the belly and under jaw. Ibid. II. 301 During the progress of the flensing. 1874Markham Whaling Cruise iv. 50 The cutting up or ‘flinching’ of the fish. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容：
相关热词搜索：flense英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 硫酸镭 释义 【化】 radium sulfate 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖......