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Meaning of 'fleece' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fleece [ 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.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
2 . Fleece [ v. t.]
- To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
- To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
- To spread over as with wool.

Meaning of 'fleece' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fleece [ v]
Meaning (1):
- shear the wool from
Example in sentence:
  • shear sheep

Nearby Words:

flea flea-beetle flea-bite flea-bitten flea-louse fleabane fleagh fleak fleaking fleam

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