FLEET

verb

Definitions

  1. 1. To sail; to float. [Obs.] And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. Spenser.
  2. 2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.
  3. 3. To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser.

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Added: October 09, 2025 Updated: October 09, 2025
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