Meaning

• Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

• Insulating skin with the wool attached

• A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.

• An insulating wooly jacket

• (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.

• Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

• The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Meaning

• To con or trick (someone) out of money.

• To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).

  "During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days."

• To cover with, or as if with, wool.