- (v.t.) To deprive of a fleece or natural covering of wool.
- (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- (v.t.) To spread over as with wool.
- (v.t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
- (n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- (n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep or animal, at one time.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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