Shearling vs Fleece - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shearling and fleece

is that shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time while fleece is hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

to con or trick someone out of money.

(en noun)

A sheep that has been shorn for the first time

* {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97

, passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}

(chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth

Her coat was lined with shearling.

* roughy * clippy * wether * hog

(wikipedia fleece)

(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.

(fleec)

to con or trick someone out of money

to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)