- nounfleece (noun) · fleeces (plural noun)
- the woolly covering of a sheep or goat:"as the sheep came on board, we grabbed their long shaggy fleeces" · "he clutched the ram by two handfuls of thick fleece"
- the amount of wool shorn from a sheep in a single piece at one time:"the shed can be used for storing fleeces"
- heraldrya representation of a fleece suspended from a ring.
- a soft warm fabric with a texture similar to sheep's wool, used as a lining material:"a reversible fleece jacket"
- a jacket or other garment made from a fleece fabric.
verbfleece (verb) · fleeces (third person present) · fleeced (past tense) · fleeced (past participle) · fleecing (present participle)- informalobtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them:"money that authorities say he fleeced from well-to-do acquaintances"
- literarycover as if with a fleece:"the sky was half blue, half fleeced with white clouds"
OriginOld English flēos, flēs, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlies and German Vlies.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them:
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