Usually means: Soft, warm fabric from wool.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word fleece:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleece: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fleece: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fleece: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fleece: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fleece: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fleece, fleece: Wordnik
  7. fleece: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fleece: Wiktionary
  9. fleece: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fleece: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fleece, fleece: Dictionary.com
  12. fleece (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. fleece: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fleece (disambiguation), Fleece: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fleece: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fleece: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fleece: Rhymezone
  18. Fleece: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fleece: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Fleece: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. fleece: Free Dictionary
  22. fleece: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fleece: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. fleece: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fleece: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. fleece: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fleece: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  2. fleece: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fleece: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fleece: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fleece: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleece, fleece, fleece: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fleece: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Fleece: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See fleeced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
noun:  (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
noun:  (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
noun:  (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
noun:  (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
noun:  Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
noun:  The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
verb:  (transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
verb:  (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
verb:  (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

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