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Bilk vs Fleece - What's the difference?

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Bilk is a related term of fleece.


As nouns the difference between bilk and fleece

is that bilk is (cribbage) the spoiling of someone's score in the crib while fleece is (uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

As verbs the difference between bilk and fleece

is that bilk is to spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage while fleece is to con or trick someone out of money.

bilk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  • (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
  • To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
  • *:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.

    • fleece

    English

    (wikipedia fleece)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
  • (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
  • (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
  • (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
  • (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
  • Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  • The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

    • Verb

    (fleec)
  • to con or trick someone out of money
  • to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)

    • See also

    * (con) nickel and dime