Pillage vs Fleece - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
* 1911 , ,
The spoils of war.
* Shakespeare
The act of pillaging.
looting
(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.
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
Pillage is a related term of fleece.
As verbs the difference between pillage and fleece
is that pillage is (ambitransitive) to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war while fleece is to con or trick someone out of money.As nouns the difference between pillage and fleece
is that pillage is the spoils of war while fleece is (uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.pillage
English
Verb
(pillag)- Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
Noun
(-)- Which pillage they with merry march bring home.