fleet
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1. fleet - Noun
2. fleet - Adjective
3. fleet - Verb
5. fleet - Adjective Satellite
6. Fleet - Proper noun
Meaning
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).
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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.
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet.
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.