FLEECE

vt to spread over as with wool.

2. fleece ·noun any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

3. fleece ·vt to deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

4. fleece ·noun the fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

5. fleece ·vt to strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

6. fleece ·noun 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.