Definition of Fleet

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Definition of Fleet

Fleet

To sail; to float.

To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.

To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.

To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.

To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.

To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.

Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.

A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.

A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).

To take the cream from; to skim.

To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.

To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew.

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Fleet Quotations

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
Wendell Willkie

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
Buffalo Bill

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
Barney Ross

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross

Fleet Translations

fleet in Dutch is vloot
fleet in Finnish is laivasto
fleet in French is flotte
fleet in German is Flotte
fleet in Italian is naviglio
fleet in Latin is pennipes, celox
fleet in Portuguese is frota
fleet in Spanish is flota
fleet in Swedish is flotta

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