Definitions for fleeting
  • Fleet (n. & a.) - To sail; to float.
  • Fleet (n. & a.) - To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
  • Fleet (n. & a.) - To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
  • Fleet (v. t.) - To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
  • Fleet (v. t.) - To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
  • Fleet (v. t.) - To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
  • Fleet (v. t.) - To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  • Fleet (v. i.) - Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
  • Fleet (v. i.) - Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
  • Fleet (v. i.) - A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  • Fleet (v. i.) - A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
  • Fleet (v. i.) - A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
  • Fleet (v. i.) - To take the cream from; to skim.
  • Fleeted (imp. & p. p.) - of Fleet
  • Fleetful - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Fleeting (a.) - Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
  • Fleeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Fleet
  • Fleetingly (adv.) - In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
  • Fleetings (n. pl.) - A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
  • Fleetly (adv.) - In a fleet manner; rapidly.
  • Fleetness (n.) - Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
  • Fleetnesses - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Fleets - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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