Word Meaning

fleece definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for fleece

- Amount of wool
- Con, run off to church!
- Defraud
- Defraud or charge too much
- Escape end of performance? What a rip-off!
- Flee Church of England swindle
- Merino pelt
- Rip off
- Rip off sheepskin
- Rob blind
- Sheep's coat
- Sheep’s coat
- Sheep’s coat of wool
- Sheep’s wool
- Sheep’s wool? It’s a rip-off
- Warm fabric, polar ...
- Wool
- Wool coat of a sheep