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fleece, mat of wool wool, fiber made from the fleece of the domestic sheep. Composition and Characteristics

Wool consists of the cortex, overlapping scales (sharper and more protruding than those of hair) that may expand at their free edges causing fibers to
..... Click the link for more information. formed by shearing a sheep in one continuous operation. The average fleece weighs from 5 to 10 lb (2.3–4.5 kg); in highbred wool sheep such as the American Merinos a ram's fleece may reach 30 lb (13.6 kg). The weight lost in cleansing the fleece of grease before sorting the wool is called shrinkage. On large sheep ranches hand shearing, once a competition skill, has largely been replaced by machine shearing. In heraldry a fleece is a whole, stuffed ram's fleece, complete with head and feet, suspended by a band around its middle. See also Golden Fleece Golden Fleece, in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino, Athamas' second wife.
..... Click the link for more information. and sheep sheep, common name for many species of wild and domesticated ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis of the Bovidae, or cattle, family. The male is called a ram (if castrated it is a wether), the female is called a ewe, and their offspring is a lamb.
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fleece

sheepskin or a fabric with soft pile, used as a lining for coats, etc.

fleece [flēs]

(textiles)

A fabric with a deep, soft, napped surface.

(vertebrate zoology)

Coat of wool shorn from sheep; usually taken off the animal in one piece.

Fleece

wool removed from a sheep in an entire layer. Fleece consists of staples or locks of wool that are held close to one another by connecting wool threads in homogeneous wool and by the bunching of down at the bases of the locks in heterogeneous wool. The fleece is removed in the spring from fine-wooled, semifine-wooled, semicoarse-wooled, and coarse-wooled sheep. Autumn and lamb’s-wool shearings do not form a fleece but fall into separate pieces. The wool covering on sheep before shearing is also called fleece.

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No references found	He lost no time in sending messengers to all the cities, and making known to the whole people of Greece, that Prince Jason, the son of King Jason, was going in quest of the Fleece of Gold, and that he desired the help of forty-nine of the bravest and strongest young men alive, to row his vessel and share his dangers. Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram's fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could. Fables by Aesop View in context You were created by my father a Knight of the Garter ---that is an order which all the kings of Europe cannot bear; by the queen regent, Knight of the Holy Ghost -- which is an order not less illustrious; I join to it that of the Golden Fleece sent me by the king of France, to whom the king of Spain, his father-in-law, gave two on the occasion of his marriage; but in return, I have a service to ask of you. Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context	flea allergy dermatitis flea beetle Flea Beetles flea market Flea Seeds flea-bite dermatitis flea-bitten flea-borne typhus Fleabane Fleadh Cheoil Fleagle, John G. fleaking fleam fleapit Fleche Flèche Flèche, La flechette Fléchier, Esprit fleck Flecker Flecker, James Elroy flecnode Fledgeby fledgling Fleece Fleet fleet angle fleet broadcast Fleet Prison Fleet Street Fleet Week Fleet, Thomas fleeting target Fleetwood Fleetwood, Charles Flehmen response Fleischer brothers Fleischer, Leon Flémal, Bertholet Flemalle, Master of Flémalle, Master of Fleming Fleming County Fleming cracking process Fleming Park Fleming tube Fleming's rule Fleming's solution Fleming, Alexander Fleming, Henry	fledge fledge Fledgeby fledged fledgeless fledgeling fledgeling fledgeling fledgelings fledgelings fledgelings fledges fledging fledging fledgling fledgling fledgling fledgling period fledglings fledglings fledglings fledgy FLEDS flee flee flee flee flee from flee from flee to Fleece fleece fly strike fleece fly strike fleece fly strike fleece fly strike fleece of Stilling fleece of Stilling fleece of Stilling fleece of Stilling fleece rot fleece rot fleece rot fleece rot fleece weight fleece weight fleece weight fleece weight Fleece wool fleece worm fleece worm fleece worm fleece worm Fleece-Free Empty Body Fleece-Free Empty Body Weight fleece-lined fleeceable fleeced fleeced fleeced fleeced Fleeceless

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He lost no time in sending messengers to all the cities, and making known to the whole people of Greece, that Prince Jason, the son of King Jason, was going in quest of the Fleece of Gold, and that he desired the help of forty-nine of the bravest and strongest young men alive, to row his vessel and share his dangers.

Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram's fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.

Fables by Aesop View in context

You were created by my father a Knight of the Garter ---that is an order which all the kings of Europe cannot bear; by the queen regent, Knight of the Holy Ghost -- which is an order not less illustrious; I join to it that of the Golden Fleece sent me by the king of France, to whom the king of Spain, his father-in-law, gave two on the occasion of his marriage; but in return, I have a service to ask of you.

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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