1syllable
fleets
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Definitions offleets
1noun
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- Any group of associated items.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (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.
1noun
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
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.
1noun
- Floor; bottom; lower surface.
- A house; home.
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