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Перевод: fleece

[существительное]
овечья шерсть; шерсть ; руно; настриг с одной овцы; начес ; ворс ; копна волос;
[глагол]
стричь овец; обдирать; обобрать; вымогать; покрывать словно шерстью

Тезаурус:

1. They give me a reindeer hood that they assure me will be warmer than my silk and fleece and wool.
2. A tightly packed fleece pile is produced which does not compress under weight.
3. But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up: corral the gringos then fleece them.
4. But now they'll have to spare his wool, or they'll rip off his hide and then there'll be no wool left to fleece."
5. In some cases fleece could be stored on a gallery for a group of spinners, for it is preferable to keep fleeces in a cool atmosphere as they deteriorate in hot and dry conditions.
6. Then the rod was twisted by the spinner, who pulled strands out from the fleece, allowing them to twist into thread by the action of the revolving spindle.
7. Magnus Fehn, 13, was representing his own creation, the New Democracy Party, which plans to fleece the rich and tax the Queen.
8. FLEECE: FUNCTION OR FASHION
9. Formal and informal discrimination against foreigners in public-procurement contracts by American state and local governments serves only to fleece taxpayers.
10. It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands.
11. He has sired two Derby winners, Golden Fleece and Shahrastani, and in the year of his Epsom triumph, was also responsible for the Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand.
12. He is magnificently dressed in damask decorated with peacock feathers, and wears the Order of the Golden Fleece.
13. Phoenix presently get their fleece from an Austrian producer and will soon launch a new range of garments for climbers and walkers, made up from Italian fleece.