fleece > define

noun

• The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing.
  • synonyms: sheepskin
• A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.
• Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks.
  • synonyms: wool

verb

• Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
  • synonyms: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, plume, pluck, rob, hook
• Shear the wool from.
  • usage: "shear sheep"
  • synonyms: shear

• (v.t.) To deprive of a fleece or natural covering of wool.
• (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• (v.t.) To spread over as with wool.
• (v.t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
• (n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• (n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep or animal, at one time.