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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.
 
fleet-foot
  • (a.) Swift of foot.
 
fleeted
  • (imp. &
  • p. p.) of Fleet
 
fleeten
  • (n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk.
 
fleeting
  • (p. pr. &
  • vb. n.) of Fleet
  • (a.) Passing swiftly away
  • not durable
  • transient
  • transitory
  • as, the fleeting hours or moments.
 
fleetingly
  • (adv.) In a fleeting manner
  • swiftly.

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