1736 Canting Dictionary / F / To FLEECE [crime]
to Rob, Plunder or Strip.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
To Fleece in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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