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Fleet

speaker

Meaning

Noun

●
In Collectives:
A group of
or vehicles.
●
Any group of associated items.
●
In Collectives:
A large,
group of people.
●
In Nautical & Collectives:
A number of
in company, especially
; also, the
of a country, etc.
●
In Nautical & Collectives:
Any
of
a
in
, or a
admiral's
,
of
sail-of-the-line, with any number of
.
●
An
of the
; a
of water, such as an
or a creek.
●
In Nautical:
A
, as on a
, where
are secured.
●
In Yorkshire English:
Obsolete form of
(“house,
, large room”).

Verb

●
To float.
●
To
; to
the
of.
●
To
over; to cause to
, or in
and joy.
●
To
, to
, to
away.
●
To
,
,
out.
●
In Nautical:
To
a
,
to more
; especially to
apart the
of a tackle.
●
In Nautical:
To
or change in position.
●
In Nautical:
To
the
of
when the
are become too long.
●
To cause to
the
of a
or
, as a
or chain.
●
To take the
from; to skim.

Adj

●
Swift in
;
and
in going from place to place.
●
Light;
; not
, as soil.

Name

●
A
(the River Fleet) in London, England, now
, that
under the Eastern
Fleet Street.
●
A
(the Fleet Prison) in London, which
the stream.
●
A
, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway
, Scotland.
●
A
in Highland
, Scotland, which
into Loch Fleet.
●
A
in Hart
, Hampshire, England.
●
A
and
in South Holland
, Lincolnshire, England (OS
TF3823).
●
A
in Alberta, Canada.
●
A surname.
Sourced from
Wiktionary

Origin

fleet
English
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flet
Middle English (1100-1500)
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flet
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
fleten
Middle English (1100-1500)
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fleotan
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym

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