Found 2 items, similar to fleece.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fleece fleece n 1: the wool of a sheep or similar animal 2: tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing [syn: sheepskin] 3: a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing 4: outer coat of especially sheep and yaks [syn: wool] v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 2: shear the wool from; “shear sheep” [syn: shear]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fleece Fleece \Fleece\ (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; akin to D. flies, vlies.] 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. [1913 Webster] Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. [1913 Webster] 3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. [1913 Webster] Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. Golden fleece. See under Golden. [1913 Webster] Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. [1913 Webster] 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. [1913 Webster] Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson. [1913 Webster]