Definition of fleece

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Fleece (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

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Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To spread over as with wool.
Shaver :: Shaver (n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
Fleeced :: Fleeced (imp. & p. p.) of Fleec.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) To strip; to plunder; to fleece.
Fleece :: 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..
Beggar''s Ticks :: Beggar's ticks () The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity..
Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..
Fleeced :: Fleeced (a.) Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working..
Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Shorling :: Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing..
Fleeced :: Fleeced (a.) Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
Argo :: Argo (n.) The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece..
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece..
Woolly :: Woolly (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece..
Argonaut :: Argonaut (n.) Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece..
Pigeon :: Pigeon (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
Fleecer :: Fleecer (n.) One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund..
Fleecy :: Fleecy (a.) Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece..
Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool..
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