fleece

Plural: fleeces

Noun

• the wool of a sheep or similar animal
• tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
• a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
• outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
• Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
• Insulating skin with the wool attached
• A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
• An insulating wooly jacket
• Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Verb

Verb Forms: fleeced, fleecing, fleeces

• To remove wool from a sheep or to swindle someone.
• rip off; ask an unreasonable price
• shear the wool from
• To con or trick (someone) out of money.
• To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
• To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Examples

• During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.
• He tried to fleece me out of a winning play by miscounting his tiles.

Synonyms

gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, shear, sheepskin, soak, surcharge, wool, shear#Verb

Antonyms

undercharge

Related Words

nickel and dime