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🥓 A strip of meat 🐑 A sheep's wool 🕵️ To cheat ✂️ To shear
to fleeche

to fleeche

9.9
To cut the wool off a sheep
  • verb
  • Archaic
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  • The shepherd taught his apprentice how to properly fleeche the flock without harming the animals.

Examples

  • Before the invention of modern tools, people would fleeche sheep by hand using simple blades.

  • In the old village, farmers would fleeche their sheep every spring to prepare for the warmer months.

  • They fleeche the sheep every spring.

  • The farmer fleeched the sheep quickly.

  • In the old village, farmers would fleeche their sheep every spring to prepare for the warmer months.

  • The shepherd taught his apprentice how to properly fleeche the flock without harming the animals.

  • Before the invention of modern tools, people would fleeche sheep by hand using simple blades.

Synonyms

to shear
vsto fleeche
9 3.5

To cut wool or hair from an animal with large scissors

means cutting fiber from sheep specifically, not general trimming
to fleece
vsto fleeche
1 4.2

Remove the wool from a sheep

is the archaic form used for the same cutting action
to wool
vsto fleeche
1 8.4

To cut the soft hair from sheep to collect it

refers only to cutting fiber from sheep rather than gathering

How Thorough

to fleeche
  • Archaic
9.9
to trim
95 2.6

Surface Forms

fleeche infinitive
fleeched past
fleeched past participle
fleeching present participle
fleeches third person singular

Etymology

The verb fleeche meaning to remove wool from a sheep is directly related to fleece, which means 'wool'. So to fleeche a sheep is simply to cut or take off its wool.