The term 'blubber strip' refers to a type of material used in the construction of boats and ships. The crossword solutions for this term are FLENSE (6 letters), SOB (3 letters), WEEP (4 letters), and FAT (3 letters). Flense is a verb meaning to remove the blubber from a whale or other marine mammal. SOB is an acronym for Sounding of Blubber, which is a method of measuring the thickness of blubber on a whale. WEEP is a verb meaning to shed tears, and FAT is an adjective meaning having a large amount of body FAT.