| fleece | 1. 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. "Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece." (Milton) 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. 3. 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 Golden. Origin: OE. Flees, AS. Fleos; akin to D. Flies, vlies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fleece worm | The larva of one of several species of blowflies which deposit eggs on sheep, causing myiasis. Synonym: fleece worm. (05 Mar 2000) |