Word Definition
Fleece
- To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- 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.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- 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.
Synonyms
- Cheated
- Hustling
- Bled
- Cozening
- Chisel
- Gyp
- Victimized
- Sticked
- Stick
- Bleed
- Fur
- Defrauded
- Rooked
- Victimizing
- Squeezed
- Hustled
- Chiselling
- Sticking
- Cozen
- Rook
- Stung
- Squeeze
- Skinned
- Swindled
- Defraud
- Chiseled
- Cozened
- Mulcting
- Bleeding
- Cheating
- Chiselled
- Skinning
- Rooking
- Victimize
- Swindling
- Mulcted
- Chiseling