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Webster 1913 Edition
Fleece
Fleece
(flēs)
, Noun.
[OE.
flees
, AS. fleós
; akin to D. flies
, vlies
.] 1.
The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
Who shore me
Like a tame wether, all my precious
Like a tame wether, all my precious
fleece
. Milton.
2.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
3.
(Manuf.)
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Fleece
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fleeced
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fleecing
.] 1.
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
2.
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely
fleeced
. Fuller.
3.
To spread over as with wool.
[R.]
Thomson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fleece
FLEECE
,Noun.
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
FLEECE
, v.t.1.
To shear off a covering or growth of wool.2.
To strip of money or property; to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority. Arbitrary princes fleece their subjects; and clients complain that they are sometimes fleeced by their lawyers.This word is rarely or never used for plundering in war by a licentious soldiery; but is properly used to express a stripping by contributions levied on a conquered people.
3.
To spread over as with wool; to make white.Definition 2025
Fleece
Fleece
See also: fleece
German
Noun
Fleece n (genitive Fleeces, no plural)
- (textile) fleece
Declension
Declension of Fleece (uncountable)
Derived terms
- Fleecejacke
External links
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- Fleece in Duden online
fleece
fleece
See also: Fleece
English
Noun
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
- (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
- (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Translations
hair or wool of a sheep
|
|
insulating skin with the wool attached
textile
insulating wooly jacket
Verb
fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)
- to con or trick someone out of money
- There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.[1]
- to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
- During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.
Translations
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece
See also
- (con): nickel and dime
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowing from English fleece.
Pronunciation
Noun
fleece
- Alternative spelling of fliisi
Declension
| Inflection of fleece (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | fleece | fleecet | |
| genitive | fleecen | fleecejen | |
| partitive | fleeceä | fleecejä | |
| illative | fleeceen | fleeceihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | fleece | fleecet | |
| accusative | nom. | fleece | fleecet |
| gen. | fleecen | ||
| genitive | fleecen | fleecejen fleeceinrare |
|
| partitive | fleeceä | fleecejä | |
| inessive | fleecessä | fleeceissä | |
| elative | fleecestä | fleeceistä | |
| illative | fleeceen | fleeceihin | |
| adessive | fleecellä | fleeceillä | |
| ablative | fleeceltä | fleeceiltä | |
| allative | fleecelle | fleeceille | |
| essive | fleecenä | fleeceinä | |
| translative | fleeceksi | fleeceiksi | |
| instructive | — | fleecein | |
| abessive | fleecettä | fleeceittä | |
| comitative | — | fleeceineen | |