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Fleece

Fleece Meaning & Definition
Fleece Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fleece?

[n] outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
[n] a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
[n] tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
[n] the wool of a sheep or similar animal
[v] shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
[v] rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fleece: gazump | hook | overcharge | pluck | plume | rob | shear | sheepskin | soak | surcharge | wool

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fleece: alabaster | bare | beat | beguile of | bilk | bleed | bleed white | blubber | breeze | bristle | bunco | burn | butter | capillament | chalk | cheat | chisel | chouse | chouse out of | cilium | clay | clip | coat | cog | cog the dice | con | cozen | crib | crop | cushion | cuticle | defraud | denudate | denude | deplume | depredate | dermis | despoil | diddle | displume | divest | do | do in | do out of | dough | down | drain | driven snow | dry | eiderdown | euchre | exhaust | exploit | expose | feather bed | feathers | fell | finagle | flam | flay | flesh | flimflam | floss | flour | flue | fluff | foam | fob | forage | foray | freeboot | fudge | fur | furring | gouge | gull | gut | gyp | hair | have | head | head of hair | hide | hocus | hocus-pocus | hold up | horsehair | hustle | imitation fur | imitation leather | impoverish | integument | ivory | jacket | kapok | lay bare | lay open | leather | leather paper | Leatherette | Leatheroid | lily | locks | loot | maggot | mane | maraud | mat | milk | mop | mulct | outer layer | outer skin | overcharge | overprice | overtax | pack the deal | paper | pearl | pelt | peltry | pick clean | pigeon | pile | pillage | pillow | pluck | plunder | plush | practice fraud upon | prey on | profiteer | pubescence | pubic hair | pudding | puff | putty | raid | ransack | ravage | raven | ravish | rawhide | reive | remove | rifle | rind | rip off | rob | rook | rope in | rubber | sack | satin | scam | screw | sell gold bricks | setula | shag | shave | shear | sheath | sheet | shock | shortchange | silk | silver | skin | skins | snow | soak | spoil | spoliate | stack the cards | stick | sting | strip | strip bare | suck dry | surcharge | swan | swansdown | sweat | sweep | swindle | take | take a dive | tegument | thatch | thimblerig | thistledown | throw a fight | tresses | uncloak | uncover | unsheathe | unveil | vair | velvet | victimize | wax | wool | zephyr

See Also | beat | bill | charge | cheat | chisel | cloth | coat | extort | fabric | Golden Fleece | gouge | leather | material | pelage | rack | rip off | shave | textile | trim | wool | wring

Fleece In Webster's Dictionary

\Fleece\, n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; 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. --Milton. 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\, 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 fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller. 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson.

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