Usually means: Sheep's wool used for clothing.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleeces: Merriam-Webster
  2. fleeces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fleeces: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fleeces, fleeces: Wordnik
  5. fleeces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fleeces: Wiktionary
  7. fleeces: Dictionary.com
  8. fleeces: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fleeces: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. fleeces: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fleeces: Legal dictionary

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  1. fleeces: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fleeces: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fleece as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fleece)

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 cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
verb:  (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
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