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      fleet
      noun
      A group of vessels or vehicles.
      Any group of associated items.
      A large, coordinated group of people.
      (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
      (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.
      The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
      (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
      A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
      A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
      A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
      A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
      A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
      A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
      A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
      A surname.
      (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). [(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.]
      (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
      verb
      (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
      (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
      (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
      (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
      (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
      (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
      To take the cream from; to skim.
      To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
      (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
      (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
      adjective
      (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
      (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
      Synonyms for fleet
      armadanflotillanargosynshipsnsquadronnnavynescadrillenconvoyn
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