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Fleece

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.

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

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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