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Meaning Of Fleet
n. & a.
To sail; to float.
n. & a.
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
v. t.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
v. t.
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
v. t.
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
v. t.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
v. i.
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
v. i.
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
v. i.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
v. i.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
v. i.
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
v. i.
To take the cream from; to skim.
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