fell vs fleece

fell

noun
  • An animal skin, hide, pelt. 

  • Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense). 

  • The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. 

  • A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. 

  • A wild field or upland moor. 

  • A cutting-down of timber. 

  • The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. 

  • The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting. 

verb
  • To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. 

  • simple past tense of fall 

  • To strike down, kill, destroy. 

  • To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. 

adj
  • Very large; huge. 

  • Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent 

  • Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. 

adv
  • Sharply; fiercely. 

fleece

noun
  • Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. 

  • A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. 

  • The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. 

  • Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer. 

  • An insulating wooly jacket 

  • Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal 

  • Insulating skin with the wool attached 

verb
  • To con or trick (someone) out of money. 

  • To cover with, or as if with, wool. 

  • To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). 

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