Definition of fleece Fleece

/fliˈs/ - [flees] - fleece

We found 25 definitions of fleece from 6 different sources.

What does fleece mean?

Noun Plural: fleeces
fleece - a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
		cloth, textile, fabric, material artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
fleece - the wool of a sheep or similar animal
		wool outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
fleece - outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
		wool
		pelage, coat growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
fleece - tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
		sheepskin
		leather an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
Verb fleeces, fleecing, fleeced
fleece - shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
		shear
		shave, trim remove body hair with a razor
fleece - rip off; ask an unreasonable price
		overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, plume, pluck, rob, hook
		undercharge charge (someone) too little money
		rip off, chisel, cheat carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
		bill, charge advertise especially by posters or placards; "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"
		extort, gouge, wring, squeeze, rack get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

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fleece (Noun)
Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
fleece (Noun)
Insulating skin with the wool attached.
fleece (Noun)
A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
fleece (Noun)
An insulating wooly jacket.
fleece (Noun)
Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
fleece (Noun)
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
fleece (Noun)
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
fleece (Verb)
Con or trick someone out of money.
fleece (Verb)
To shear the fleece from an animal such as a sheep.

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

fleece
flēs, n. the coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time: anything like a fleece.—v.t. to clip wool from: to plunder: to cover, as with wool.—adjs. Fleeced, having a fleece; Fleece′less.—ns. Flee′cer, one who strips or plunders; Fleece′-wool, that shorn from the living animal.—adj. Fleec′y, woolly. [A.S. fléos; Dut. vlies, Ger. fliess.]

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