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 →

2) A soft, warm jacket or jumper made of fluffy man-made fabric. tree →

3) (informal) To fleece someone is to cheat them out of money, often by charging far too much. tree →

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 →
• Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. tree →
• Bring a warm fleece on the school camping trip. tree →
• My fleece got covered in dog hair. tree →
• The tourists were fleeced by a taxi driver who charged them triple. tree →
• In the Greek myth, Jason sailed to find the Golden Fleece. tree →
• One fleece can give enough wool to knit a jumper. tree →
• It was a good fat sheep, with a fine fleece on its back. tree →

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.
• Some people think the golden takin's shining coat inspired the Greek legend of the Golden Fleece.
• Paper is soaked and mashed into new paper, and plastic bottles can be spun into threads for fleece jackets.
• Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles.
• And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fleece» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.