FLEECE

Definitions

1. 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
2. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.
3. 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.