Crossword-Solution: FLEECE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fleece | n. | 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. |
| Fleece | n. | Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. |
| Fleece | n. | The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. |
| Fleece | v. t. | To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. |
| Fleece | v. t. | To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. |
| Fleece | v. t. | To spread over as with wool. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with FLEECE (5)
The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, “Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.” The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
But the exception, added to its smallness, made the mystery—just as when the difference between the state of an insignificant fleece and the state of all round it, rather than any novelty in the states themselves, arrested the attention of Gideon.
About noon the chapmen came back again well pleased; and Clement gave Ralph a parchment from the lord, which bade all men help and let pass Ralph of Upmeads, as a sergeant of the chapmen's guard, and said withal that now he was free to go about the town if he listed, so that he were back at the hostel of the Fleece by nightfall.
And he was blond, too, which made it worse--as blond as Stenterello; pure fleece! So I said to him frankly, ‘Many thanks, Herr Graf; your uniform is magnificent, but your face is too fat.’” “I am afraid that mine also,” said Rowland, with a smile, “seems just now to have assumed an unpardonable latitude.” “Oh, I take it you know very well that we are looking for a husband, and that none but tremendous swells need apply.
They trim away the ragged locks, and rip the cutter goes, And leaves a track of snowy fleece from brisket to the nose; It's lovely how they peel it off with never stop nor stay, They're racing for the ringer's place this year at Castlereagh.
Quotes with FLEECE (3)
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""It was probably important to her.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
Eventually, Krysomallos would be skinned for his fleece, which became known as the Golden Fleece, which means I am related to a sheepskin rug. This is why you don't want to think too hard about who you're related to in the Greek myths. It'll drive you crazy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 103 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).