3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife
from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under
Golden.
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.