"fleece" Definition

Definitions for the word "fleece" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To spread over as with wool.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 a woolly coat of a sheep etc. B wool sheared from a sheep at one time. 2 thing resembling a fleece, esp. Soft fabric for lining etc. v. (-cing) 1 (often foll. By of) strip of money, valuables, etc.; swindle. 2 shear (sheep etc.). 3 cover as if with a fleece (sky fleeced with clouds). fleecy adj. (-ier, -iest). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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