Fleece

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To spread over as with wool.

II. Fleece ·noun Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

III. Fleece ·vt To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

IV. Fleece ·noun The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

V. Fleece ·vt To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

VI. Fleece ·noun 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.

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