Definitions of fleet
n. & a. - To sail; to float.
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n. & a. - To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
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n. & a. - To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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v. t. - To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
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v. t. - To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
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v. t. - To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
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v. t. - To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
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v. i. - Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
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v. i. - Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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v. i. - A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
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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.
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v. i. - A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
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v. i. - To take the cream from; to skim.
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v. i. - To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.
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v. t. - To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew.
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The word "fleet" uses 5 letters: E E F L T.
No direct anagrams for fleet found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after fleet (in bold), or to eeflt in any order:
d - felted r - lefter refelt reflet telfer s - fleets t - fettle
Shorter words found within fleet:
eel ef eft el elf et fee feel feet felt fet fete flee lee leet left let tee teel tel tele
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