fleece

English

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Etymology

From Middle English flees, from Old English flēos. Cognate to Albanian flok (“hair”) and Russian волос (“a hair”).

Pronunciation

• (UK/US) IPA: /fliːs/

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

fleece (countable and uncountable; plural fleeces)

1. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
2. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
3. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
4. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
5. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
6. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
7. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Translations

hair or wool of a sheep

• Armenian: բուրդ (hy) (burd), (archaic) գեղմ (hy) (geġm)
• Bulgarian: руно (bg) (runó) n
• Catalan: velló (ca) m, vell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羊毛 (cmn) (yángmáo)

• Czech: rouno (cs) n
• French: toison (fr) f
• German: Vlies (de) n
• Greek: προβιά (el) (proviá) f, μηλωτή (el) (milotí) f

• Hungarian: gyapjú (hu)
• Italian: vello (it) m
• Japanese: 羊皮 (ja) (ようひ, yōhi)
• Latvian: vilna (lv) f
• Polish: runo (pl) n
• Romanian: lână (ro)
• Russian: шерсть (ru) (šérstʹ) f, руно (ru) (runó) n
• Scottish Gaelic: rùsg (gd) m
• Spanish: lana (es) f, toisón (es) m

insulating skin with the wool attached

• Catalan: velló (ca) m, vell (ca) m
• Czech: rouno (cs) n
• French: toison (fr) f
• Greek: προβιά (el) (proviá) f
• Hungarian: gyapjas bőr (hu)

• Italian: vello (it) m
• Russian: овчина (ru) (ovčína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: rùsg (gd) m
• Slovak: rúno (sk) n
• Spanish: piel (es) f, vellón (es) m

textile

• Catalan: pelfa (ca) f
• Italian: felpa (it) f

• Spanish: felpa (es) f, pana (es) f, terciopelo (es)

insulating wooly jacket

• Czech: flís (cs) m

• Italian: ; pile (it) m

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Translations to be checked

• French: toison f (1), fleece (4)

• Slovene: runo n

Verb

fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)

1. Con or trick someone out of money.
2. To shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

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

Translations

con or trick someone out of money

• Bulgarian: оскубвам (bg) (oskubvam)
• French: dévaliser (fr), dépouiller (fr)
• Hungarian: megvág (hu), megkopaszt (hu)

• Romanian: stoarce (ro)
• Russian: обдирать (ru) (obdirátʹ) impf., ободрать (ru) (obodrátʹ) pf. (как ли́пку)
• Spanish: esquilar (es), esquilmar (es)

To shear the fleece

• Bulgarian: стрижа (bg) (striža)

• Russian: стричь (ru) (stričʹ) (ове́ц)

See also

• (con): nickel and dime