the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.

the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing.

something resembling a fleece

a fleece of clouds in a blue sky.

a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments.

the soft nap or pile of such a fabric.

to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle

He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.

to remove the fleece of (a sheep).

to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses

a host of clouds fleecing the summer sky.

verb

give , offer

verb

bleed * , burn * , cheat * , clip * , con , cozen , defraud , despoil , flimflam * , gouge , hustle , jerk around , milk * , mulct , overcharge , pluck , rifle , rip off * , rob , rook * , rope in , run a game on , sell a bill of goods , shaft * , strip , swindle , take for a ride , take to the cleaners , bilk , cheat , clip , deceive , dupe , fabric , fell , flay , fleck , plunder , rook , shear , steal , wool