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fleet

fleet (third-person singular simple present fleets, present participle fleeting, simple past and past participle fleeted)

1. (obsolete) To float.

   [Antony] ""Our severd navy too,
   Have knit again, and fleet, threatning most sea-like."" -- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

2. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of

   a ship that fleets the gulf

3. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy

   And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet; -- Percy Shelley, Rosalind and Helen.

4. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
5. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
6. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
7. To take the cream from; to skim.

fleet (plural fleets)

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
2. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
3. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admirals command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.

fleet (comparative fleeter or more fleet, superlative fleetest or most fleet)

1. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.
   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     ...it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them--disaster momentous indeed to their expedition...

2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

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