2syllables
fleeting
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Definitions offleeting
1verb
- To float.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
Example: "a ship that fleets the gulf"
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- (of people) To move or change in position.
- To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
1adjective
- Passing quickly; of short duration.
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