fleece wool

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fleece wool - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              Who shore me
              Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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     3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the
        doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
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     Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep.
  
     Golden fleece. See under Golden.
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