Dictionary Entry
fleece
fleece is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- 3noun
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- 4transitive verb
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
- 5transitive verb
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
- 6transitive verb
To spread over as with wool.
- 7noun
outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
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- 8noun
a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
- 9noun
tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
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- 10noun
the wool of a sheep or similar animal
- 11verb
shear the wool from
"shear sheep"
Synonyms
- 12verb
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
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