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• גֵּז
• גִּזָּה

(1):

(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

(2):

(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.

(3):

(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

(4):

(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

(5):

(n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

(6):

(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.