n. 羊毛, 羊毛制的覆盖物

vt. 剪下羊毛, 诈取

[经] 敲竹杠, 诈取

Fleece \Fleece\ (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; akin to
D. flies, vlies.]
1. The entire coat of wool 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. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the
doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

{Fleece wool}, wool shorn from the sheep.

{Golden fleece}. See under {Golden}.


Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fleeced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fleecing}.]
1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially
by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions
and exactions.

Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them,
the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller.

3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson.