Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FLEET

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Definitions of FLEET

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
2. Any group of associated items.
3. A large, coordinated group of people.
4. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
5. To take the cream from; to skim.
6. A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
7. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
8. (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.
9. (dialectal, obsoleteoutside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
10. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
11. (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
12. (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
13. (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
14. (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
15. (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
16. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
17. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
18. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
19. (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
20. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
21. (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet ("house, floor, large room").
22. A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
23. A river , the Water of Fleet, in in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
24. A river in Highland, Scotland which flows into, Loch Fleet.
25. A town in Hart, Hampshire, England.
26. A village and cpar in, South Holland, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
27. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
28. A surname.

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