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 fleet v. i. [imp. & p. p. fleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. fleeting.]
 1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]
    And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.   --Spenser.
 2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
 All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
 Dissolved on earth, fleet hither.   --Milton.
 3. Naut. To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
 4. Naut. To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.
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