1. fleece - Noun
2. fleece - Verb
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.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
To spread over as with wool.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThese capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. Abraham Lincoln
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. David Foster Wallace
Go where the others have gone, to the tenebrous limit for the golden fleece of void, your ultimate prize go upright among those who are on their knees among those turning their backs on and those fallen to dust. Zbigniew Herbert
Some go out to fleece and come back sheared. Ecuadoran Proverb
It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece. Danish Proverb
A good shepherd must fleece his sheep, not flay them. Romanian Proverb