Definitions from Wiktionary (fleet)
▸ noun: A group of vessels or vehicles.
▸ noun: Any group of associated items.
▸ noun: A large, coordinated group of people.
▸ noun: (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
▸ noun: (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
▸ noun: The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
▸ noun: (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
▸ noun: (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
▸ verb: (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
▸ verb: (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
▸ verb: (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
▸ verb: To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
▸ verb: To take the cream from; to skim.
▸ adjective: (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
▸ adjective: (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
▸ noun: A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
▸ noun: A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
▸ noun: A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
▸ noun: A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
▸ noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). [(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.]
▸ Also see fleet
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▸ noun: A group of vessels or vehicles.
▸ noun: Any group of associated items.
▸ noun: A large, coordinated group of people.
▸ noun: (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
▸ noun: (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
▸ noun: The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
▸ noun: (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
▸ noun: (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
▸ verb: (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
▸ verb: (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
▸ verb: (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
▸ verb: To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
▸ verb: To take the cream from; to skim.
▸ adjective: (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
▸ adjective: (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
▸ noun: A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
▸ noun: A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
▸ noun: A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
▸ noun: A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
▸ noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). [(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.]
▸ Also see fleet
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