Lemmer (whaling)

Illustration of tools used to process a whale

A lemmer is the person who dismembers a whale separating the meat, flippers, and bones in the butchering process after it has been stripped of blubber by a flenser.^[1] The lemmer removes the meat from the bones so it can be boiled to remove the whale oil. The word lemmer is from the Norwegian language word lemme, meaning dismember.^[2] On boats, the lemmer men separated the meat from the bones on the lemmer deck where the carcass was pulled.^[3]

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