FLEECE (2)

fleece (2). Fleece, v.t. to strip a person of his substance, to clip

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Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.] 1. 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
2. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller. 3. 3. To spread over as with wool. Thomson.