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Fleet   /flit/   Listen
noun
Fleet  n.  A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
Fleet captain, the senior aid of the admiral of a fleet, when a captain.


Fleet  n.  
1.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; obsolete, except as a place name, as Fleet Street in London. "Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets."
2.
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.


adjective
Fleet  adj.  (compar. fleeter; superl. fleetest)  
1.
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble. "In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong."
2.
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Fleet  v. t.  
1.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
2.
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy. "Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly."
3.
(Naut.)
(a)
To draw apart the blocks of; said of a tackle.
(b)
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
4.
(Naut.) To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew. "We got the long "stick"... down and "fleeted" aft, where it was secured."


Fleet  v. t.  To take the cream from; to skim. (Prov. Eng.)


fleet  v. i.  (past & past part. fleeted; pres. part. fleeting)  
1.
To sail; to float. (Obs.) "And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet."
2.
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. "All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand,... Dissolved on earth, fleet hither."
3.
(Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; said of a cable or hawser.
4.
(Naut.) To move or change in position; said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.





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... a low ledge of rocks leading back to the narrow beach already mentioned, and the ledge came out to within a few feet of where the outmost boat on that side would pass it. It was the only chance and a poor one, but already the first rank of my fleet was trembling on the brink, and without stopping to weigh matters I bounded off my own canoe on to the raft alongside, which rocked with my weight like a tea-tray. From that I leapt, with such hearty good-will ...
— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold
... wife to imperative demands, only thought of a night's nursing of some specially poor patient. She rose without a word, and in two minutes they were driving, as fast as a fleet horse could take ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... with regard to the pre-dynastic period, there can be no question that by the end of the Third Dynasty even Egypt had developed a marine not inadequate to the requirements of the Cretan passage. We know that Sneferu, the last King of the Third Dynasty, sent a fleet of forty ships to the Syrian coast for cedar-wood, and that in his reign a vessel was built of the very respectable length of 170 feet. Coming farther down, we know also that Sahura of the Fifth Dynasty sent a fleet down the Red Sea as far as Punt or Somaliland. ...
— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie
... V.C., gave a lecture on this illusion before the members of the Magic Circle at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, London, at which all the press correspondents of the leading news-papers were present. He produced a snapshot of a man purporting to be showing the Rope Trick in Poona, or Kirkee, one of its suburbs. Captain Holmes explained that though the boy did climb up what he ...
— Indian Conjuring • L. H. Branson
... is very frequent in Icelandic. Thus by the side of skip-stjōrn (ship-steering) we find skips-brot (ship's breaking, shipwreck), skipa-hęrr (army of ships, fleet). Genitival composition often expresses possession, ...
— An Icelandic Primer - With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary • Henry Sweet


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