Definitions for the word "fleet" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n. & a.
To sail; to float.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n. & a.
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. i.
To take the cream from; to skim.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
1 a warships under one commander-in-chief. B (prec. By the) nation''s warships etc.; navy. 2 number of vehicles in one company etc. adj. Poet. Literary swift, nimble. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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