Fleece

Quick meaning: Fleece is a noun meaning Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Meaning

Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
2. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
3. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
4. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
5. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
6. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
7. (transitive, informal) To con or trick (someone) out of money.

Example Sentences

During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.

There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.

Wool became the substitute for money. […] In all the middle periods of British history, the fleece was the expression and the measure of national prosperity or calamity.

We carefully skirt and weigh each fleece, calculate shipping, and notify the buyer when the fleece is ready. Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.

Word Forms

• fleeces
• fleecing
• fleeced

Synonyms for fleece

Depending on context, synonyms include swindle, shear, plume, hook, pluck, gazump.

Antonyms for fleece

Common opposites include undercharge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wool, sheepskin, shear, hook, soak, plume.

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