Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
flense .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Same as
flence .
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Examples
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A short spell was allowed, when the whole eight were on board, for dinner; then all hands turned to again to "flench" the blubber, and prepare for trying-out.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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I would anticipate the recoil and flench missing the shot, to this day I have not hit a deer with that rifle, although it shoot dead on at the range.
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I would anticipate the recoil and flench missing the shot, to this day I have not hit a deer with that rifle, although it shoot dead on at the range.
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How was I furprifed, that a people of fuch decorum, and withal both quiet and cleanly in their nature, could difpcnfe with tlie noife and flench of fuch a number ot N » hogs,
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Not the flench of lake Avernus Could have more offended her nofe j
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768
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Thefe operations were extremely nc - celTary, for corrcfting the noifome flench on board, id ibr dcftroying the vermin.
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The lh r ing} and the dead, at his command Were coupled, face to face, and hand to hand t Till, ehokM with flench, in loth'd embraces t v'd.
yarb commented on the word flench
In what's now Dorset
one hundred and eighty-five
million years ago,
Megalosaurus et al
flenched, flensed these bastards to mince.
- Peter Reading, Ex Lab, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word flench
Well, I'd be flenched of my office friends if I could choose.
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009