Meaning Of 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.

n.

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

n.

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

v. t.

To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

v. t.

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

v. t.

To spread over as with wool.