fleece-ofleecyn.

1894 E. Wilson In Land of Tui xv. 244 Meanwhile the shorn fleeces are carried to a large table in the wool-shed by a man appropriately named ‘Fleecy’, and are spread out by four wool-pickers, who tear away the bad parts and fold the fleeces square, passing them to the classer.

1909 C. Owen Philip Loveluck 173 A young Maori boy acted as ‘Fleece oh!’..he flicked the fleece up in his arms when it was cut from the sheep, grasped it by its four ends, and flung it out for Loveluck to fold.

1933 ‘E. Milton’ Waimana iii. iv. 195 Two male Maori experts..were engaged with the wife of Kuru..to act as ‘Fleeço’.

1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) vii. 88 The ‘fleece-o’, whose work is to pick the fleece off the shearing board when shorn, to throw it on the wool-table, and also to keep the board swept clean.