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After the body of the Enron data has been secured in a researcher’s computer like the sperm whale to the side of the Pequod, it must be flensed into useful parts.

From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2013

For about four days we had proceeded south, our course interrupted whenever we met with a whale; and if she was killed, we made fast to a floe till we had flensed and made off.

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butts which receive it.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Wilson carried out a suggestion of his own to-night by covering the runners of a 9-ft. sledge with strips from the skin of a seal which he killed and flensed for the purpose.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

All of it, good and bad, every moment flensed away.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory