Fleece

n.	1.	The entire coat of wool 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.) 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.
v. t.	1.	To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
	2.	To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; 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.

Noun	1.	fleece - the wool of a sheep or similar animal
	2.	fleece - tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing Synonyms: sheepskin
	3.	fleece - a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
	4.	fleece - outer coat of especially sheep and yaks Synonyms: wool
Verb	1.	fleece - rip off; ask an unreasonable price Synonyms: gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hook, pluck
	2.	fleece - shear the wool from; "shear sheep" Synonyms: shear

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