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.-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.-to deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.-to strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.-to spread over as with wool.