fleete

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A form of fleet — A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounfleete (plural fleetes)

plural fleetes

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of fleet.

    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.

    1665 October 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 1st, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 100
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