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# fleece

«fleece» in Mova's school dictionary: **The woolly coat of a sheep, or the wool cut from one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fleece, fleeces); verb (fleece, fleeces, fleeced, fleecing — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The woolly coat of a sheep, or the wool cut from one sheep in one piece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#m1)

2) A soft, warm jacket or jumper made of fluffy man-made fabric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#m2)

3) (informal) To fleece someone is to cheat them out of money, often by charging far too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In farm topics and stories, sheep are sheared and their fleece is spun into wool. In everyday life a fleece is a cosy jacket for cold days or school trips. In money and safety lessons, being fleeced means being cheated. Phrases: a fleece jacket, the Golden Fleece (a Greek myth), get fleeced.

### examples

- The farmer clipped the sheep's fleece in one big piece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x1)
- Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x2)
- Bring a warm fleece on the school camping trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x3)
- My fleece got covered in dog hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x4)
- The tourists were fleeced by a taxi driver who charged them triple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x5)
- In the Greek myth, Jason sailed to find the Golden Fleece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x6)
- One fleece can give enough wool to knit a jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x7)
- It was a good fat sheep, with a fine fleece on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/#x8)

### note

Countable: one fleece, two fleeces. The verb sense is informal and means cheat; it does not mean to cut wool (that is shear). A fleece jacket is usually made of polyester, not sheep's wool.

### In the corpora

- [In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/11/)
- [Some people think the golden takin's shining coat inspired the Greek legend of the Golden Fleece.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/12/)
- [Paper is soaked and mashed into new paper, and plastic bottles can be spun into threads for fleece jackets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/3/)
- [Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/14/)
- [And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.198/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fleece» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleece/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.