Definitions for Fleece

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Fleece fleece

Spelling: [flees]

IPA: /flis/

Fleece is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Fleece (ceeefl).

Definitions for Fleece

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:
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)

1. to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle:
2. to remove the fleece of (a sheep).
3. to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses:

Origin of Fleece

before 1000; Middle English flees, Old English flēos, flȳs; cognate with Middle Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies

Examples for Fleece

I sold her fleece in the spring for forty-five cents a pound.

They could be pajama bottoms, sweats, fleece kind of things.

The specimen of their fleece which was shown us, resembles the coat of the musk ox.

Cæsar's head was as white and tight-curled as the fleece of a pet lamb.

Every one was waiting for him, to fleece him, rob him, strip him.

Another concern was that con artists would find ways to fleece the unsuspecting, by concealing the true odds of winning.

Lachnocladium is from two Greek words meaning a fleece and a branch.

But he soon discovers that his newfound clout came with a fleece attached.

Csar's head was as white and tight-curled as the fleece of a pet lamb.

Her lamb had a fleece of diamonds, and her palm-branch had become the colour of heaven.