Definition
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. |
| • | To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. |
| • | To spread over as with wool. |
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