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Look up: fleece

  1. fleece
    The wool coat of a sheep.
    Found on http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/news/aggloss.ht

  2. fleece
    [n] - the wool of a sheep or similar animal 2. [n] - a soft bulky fabric with deep pile 3. [v] - shear the wool from
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Fleece
    Shearing a sheep so that it's wool is removed intact in one piece, results in a fleece.
    Found on http://www.lethamshank.co.uk/glossary/gl

  4. Fleece
    Fleece (flēs) noun [ Middle English flees , Anglo-Saxon fleós ; akin to Dutch flies , vlies .] 1. The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/41

  5. Fleece
    Fleece transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fleeced ; present participle & verbal noun Fleecing .] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. 2. To s...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/41

  6. fleece
    1. 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. 'Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.' (Milton) ... 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. ... 3. The fine web of cotton or wool remove...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. fleece
    noun a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. fleece
    verb shear the wool from; `shear sheep`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Fleece
    • (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 t...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. fleece
    • the wool of a sheep or similar animal
    • a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
    • outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

    Found on

  11. fleece
    Generic name for pile, synthetic fabrics by Malden Mills, Draper's EcoPile, or Dyersburg's E.C.O. Fleece.
    Found on http://www.ectextile.com/glossary.html?

  12. fleece
    fleece, mat of wool formed by shearing a sheep in one continuous operation. The average fleece weighs from 5 to 10 lb (2.3–4.5 kg); in highbred wool sheep such as the American Merinos a ram's fleece may reach 30 lb (13.6 kg). The weight lost in cleansing the fleece of grease before sorting the...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  13. Fleece
    Fleece is slang for to strip of money slowly, as though fleecing a sheep; to cheat one out of money.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  14. Fleece
    Fleece is slang for to strip of money slowly, as though fleecing a sheep; to cheat one out of money.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow



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