fleece

[fleece]

A fleece is a sheep's coat. Or a goat's. Or a yak's. A person's coat can be called a fleece, too, if it comes from a sheep or goat or a yak or even if it just looks like it did.

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The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

Noun
outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

Noun
a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing

Noun
tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing

Noun
the wool of a sheep or similar animal

Verb
shear the wool from; "shear sheep"

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Verb
rip off; ask an unreasonable price

n.
The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

n.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

n.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

v. t.
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

v. t.
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

v. t.
To spread over as with wool.

Fleece

Fleece , n. [OE. flees, AS. fle'a2s; akin to D. flies, vlies .] 1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.

2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. 3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.

Fleece

Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced.

3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

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