fleet
- Proper noun. The stream that ran where Fleet Street now runs.
- Proper noun. A former prison in London, which originally stood near the stream.
- Noun. A group of vessels or vehicles.
- Noun. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Noun. (context, nautical) 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. (context, nautical) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide.
- Noun. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- Verb. (obsolete) To float.
- Verb. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- Verb. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- Verb. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- Verb. (context, nautical) 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. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.
- Adjective. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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