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Fleece vs Sheepdip - What's the difference?

fleece | sheepdip |

As nouns the difference between fleece and sheepdip

is that fleece is (uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal while sheepdip is a liquid or lotion used to wash the fleece of sheep.

As a verb fleece

is to con or trick someone out of money.

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

    sheepdip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A liquid or lotion used to wash the fleece of sheep.
  • * Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

    Related terms

    * sheep-dip