Definition of 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.
  • (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.

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