| • | 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. |
