What does "fleece" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.(Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.
2. 3.To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
3. 4.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.
4. 5.To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.