fleece
noun
the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
fleecer
-
a word derived from
fleece.
Example Sentences
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In a great set piece from the first episode, Jimmy entices Kim to join him in a little scam—fleecing a would-be fleecer out of rounds of expensive drinks.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2016
At this minute I felt as though his eyes said, "The idea of this fleecer of labor contributing to the struggle for liberty!"
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
For, behold! the same organ assailed the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, the Rothschilds, and by calling me "a fleecer of labor" it placed me in their class.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
I want you, you fleecer, to take the boots off me, a poor tramp.
From Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Julius West
Now a lunatic or a Softy, protected by that functionary, is literally a lamb protected by a wolf, and that wolf ex officio the cruellest, cunningest old mangler and fleecer of innocents in Christendom.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
