Meaning of defleece | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove the fleece from.

Examples

“At that point⟳, the fiber breaks easily and the whole fleece can be separated at the skinline, leaving the sheep completely bare. By grasping a handful of wool and rolling it back, a worker can defleece a sheep quickly and systematically without strain⟳ on himself, discomfort to the sheep, or wastage of wool.”

“It is difficult to imagine⟳ anyone disbelieving that machines fly⟳ safely and regularly around the world, but how many people believe⟳ that robots will eventually be programmed to shear sheep or that sheep will be fed a pill to defleece them?”

“At the twelfth annual Diné Be' Iiná (Sheep Is Life) festival held on the rodeo grounds at Diné College in Tsaile, I gathered with others to watch⟳ a traditional sheep shearing, marveling at how the practitioner pinned the writhing animal on the ground and proceeded to defleece its entire body with a pair of large scissors, curls of fur falling off to expose a tender, downy undercoat with a precise, uniform, and masterly cut⟳.”

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