Meaning

A group of vessels or vehicles..

Definitions by Sense

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
2. Any group of associated items.
3. A large, coordinated group of people.
4. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
5. (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.
6. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
7. (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
8. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Example Sentences

He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.

It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November.

This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.

And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.

Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report.

Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.

a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town

Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […]

Word Forms

• fleets
• fleete
• fleeting
• fleeted
• fleeter
• more fleet
• fleetest
• most fleet

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