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Pronunciation : Fleece
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. flees, AS. fle?s; akin to D. flies, vlies .]
Definition : 1. 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. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

3. (Manuf.)

Defn: The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fleece
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.

t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913