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Of course with their grog there was plenty of chat, Of canting, and flenching, and cutting up fat; And how gun-harpoons into fashion had got, And if they were meant for the gun-whale or not?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

A dog-toothed laugh laughed Reuben Paine, and bared his flenching knife.

From The Seven Seas by Kipling, Rudyard