Fleece
Fleece (flēs) , noun
[Old English flees, Anglo-Saxon fleós; akin to Dutch flies, vlies.]
1.
The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
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Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.
2.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
3.
(Manufacturing) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Fleece , transitive verb
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.
3.
To spread over as with wool. [Rare] — Thomson