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fleece

  [flees] noun, verb, fleeced, fleec⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
2. the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing.
3. something resembling a fleece: a fleece of clouds in a blue sky.
4. a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments.
5. the soft nap or pile of such a fabric.
–verb (used with object)
6. to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.
7. to remove the fleece of (a sheep).
8. to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses: a host of clouds fleecing the summer sky.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME flees, OE flēos, flȳs; c. MD vlies, MHG vlius, G Vlies

Related forms:
fleece⋅a⋅ble, adjective
fleeceless, adjective
fleecelike, adjective
fleecer, noun
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fleece   (flēs)   
n.  

    1. The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.

    2. The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.

  2. A soft woolly covering or mass.

  3. Fabric with a soft deep pile.

tr.v.   fleeced, fleec·ing, fleec·es

  1. To defraud of money or property; swindle.

  2. To shear the fleece from.

  3. To cover with or as if with fleece.


[Middle English fles, from Old English flēos.]
fleec'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
fleece

  1. tv.
    to cheat someone; to steal everything from someone. (Underworld.) : Sam fleeced the kids for a lot of money.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

fleece  (n.)
O.E. fleos, from W.Gmc. *flusaz (cf. M.Du. vluus, M.H.G. vlius, Ger. Vlies), probably from PIE *plus- (cf. L. pluma "feather, down," Lith. plunksna "feather"). The verb is 1537 in the literal sense of "to strip a sheep of fleece" and 1577 in the fig. meaning "to cheat, swindle."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Fleece

the wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon's fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleece without any on the floor, and at another time in the fleece remaining dry while the ground was wet with dew.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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