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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fleeced \Fleeced\, a. 1. Furnished with a fleece; as a sheep is well fleeced. --Spenser. 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
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