Word Meanings - FLEECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other

Additional info about word: FLEECE

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. (more info) 1. 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. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton. 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLEECE)

• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• trick
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• dupe
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• inveigle
• Extort
• Wring
• despoil
• exact
• express
• squeeze out
• wrench
• wrest
• extract
• Strip
• Divest
• denude
• bare
• pull off
• dismantle
• disencumber
• flay
• rob

Related words: (words related to FLEECE)

• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• WREAKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• WRENCH
  1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge. 2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your
• WRINKLY
  Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot. His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
• WRATHLESS
  Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
• WRATHILY
  In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
• WRYNESS
  The quality or state of being wry, or distorted. W. Montagu.
• WRAPPAGE
  1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• UNWRIE
  To uncover. Chaucer.
• WRAP
  To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• OUTLAWRY
  1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection. 2. The state of being an outlaw.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.