'Fleece wool' definitions:
Definition of 'Fleece wool'
From: GCIDE
- Fleece \Fleece\ (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; akin to D. flies, vlies.]
- 1. The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. [1913 Webster]
- Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. [1913 Webster]
- Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep.
- Golden fleece. See under Golden. [1913 Webster]