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
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
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 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
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
The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
William Falconer
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb
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
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman
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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