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fleet

FLEET, in English names, denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.



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FLEET, in English names, denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.


FLEET, a. [Ice. fliotr; Ir. luath, swift; Russ. letayu, to fly; Eng. to flit. If the last consonant is radical, this word seems to be allied to D. vlieden, to flee, to fly, and possibly the Shemitic פלט; but from the Ethiopic it would appear that the latter word is our split, the sense being to divide or separate.]

  1. Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as, a fleet horse or dog.
  2. Moving with velocity; as, fleet winds.
  3. Light; superficially fruitful; or thin; not penetrating deep; as soil. Mortimer.
  4. Skimming the surface. Mortimer.

FLEET, n.1

in English names, [Sax. fleot.] denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.


FLEET, n.2 [Sax. flota, fliet; G. flotte; D. vloot; Sw. flotte D. flode; Fr. flotte. Fleet and float seem to be allied. But whether they are formed from the root of flow, or whether the last consonant is radical, is not obvious. See Float.]

A navy or squadron of ships; number of ships in company, whether ships of war, or of commerce. It more generally signifies ships of war.


FLEET, v.i.

  1. To fly swiftly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. To fleet away is to vanish. How all the other passions fleet to air. Shak.
  2. To be in a transient state.
  3. To float.

FLEET, v.t.

  1. To skim the surface; to pass over rapidly; as, a ship that fleets the gulf. Spenser.
  2. To pass lightly, or in mirth and joy; as, to fleet away time. [Not used.] Shak.
  3. To skim milk. [Local, in England.] The verb in the transitive form is rarely or never used in America.

Fleet
  1. To sail] to float.

    [Obs.]

    And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. Spenser.

  2. To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.

    Spenser.
  3. 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. Milton.

  4. 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. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

  5. 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.     Matthewes.

  6. To take the cream from; to skim.

    [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.
  7. To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.
  8. 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. F. T. Bullen.

  9. 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.     Milton.

  10. 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. Shak.

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

    [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.
  12. 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.

  13. To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
  14. To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

    Totten.

    (b)

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Fleet

FLEET, in English names, denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.

FLEET, noun [Fleet and float seem to be allied. But whether they are formed from the root of flow, or whether the last consonant is radical, is not obvious. See Float.]

A navy or squadron of ships; a number of ships in company, whether ships of war, or of commerce. It more generally signifies ships of war.

FLEET, adjective [Eng. to flit.]

1. Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as a fleet horse or dog.

2. Moving with velocity; as fleet winds.

3. Light; superficially fruitful; or thin; not penetrating deep; as soil.

4. Skimming the surface.

FLEET, verb intransitive

1. To fly swiftly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. To fleet away is to vanish.

How all the other passions fleet to air.

2. To be in a transient state.

3. to float.

FLEET, verb transitive

1. to skim the surface; to pass over rapidly; as a ship that fleets the gulf.

2. To pass lightly, or in mirth and joy; as, to fleet away time. [Not used.]

3. To skim milk. [Local, in England.]

The verb in the transitive form is rarely or never used in America.

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