- fleotan
- float
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fleotan
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fléotan — sv/i2 3rd pres flíeteð past fléat/fluton ptp is gefloten to float, drift, flow, swim, sail; sv/t2 to skim … Old to modern English dictionary
float — fleotan … English to the Old English
fleet — I. verb Etymology: Middle English fleten, from Old English flēotan; akin to Old High German fliozzan to float, Old English flōwan to flow Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. obsolete drift 2. a. archaic … New Collegiate Dictionary
fleet — fleet1 /fleet/, n. 1. the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes. 2. the largest organization of warships under the command of a single officer. 3. a number of naval vessels or vessels carrying armed crew… … Universalium
fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
fleet — {{11}}fleet (adj.) swift, 1520s, but probably older than the record; apparently from or cognate with O.N. fliotr swift, and from the root of FLEET (Cf. fleet) (v.)). Related: Fleetness. {{12}}fleet (n.) O.E. fleot ship, raft, floating vessel,… … Etymology dictionary
fleet — fleet1 noun 1》 a group of ships sailing together or under the same ownership. ↘(the fleet) a country s navy: the US fleet. 2》 a number of vehicles or aircraft operating together. Origin OE flēot ship, shipping , from flēotan (see fleet5).… … English new terms dictionary
fleet — I. /flit / (say fleet) noun 1. the largest organised unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes. 2. the largest organisation of warships under the command of a single officer. 3. a number of naval vessels, or vessels carrying… …
fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… … Word origins
fleet — fleet1 [flēt] n. [ME flete < OE fleot < fleotan, to float: see FLEET2] 1. a) a number of warships under one command, usually in a definite area of operation b) the entire naval force of a country; navy 2. any group of ships, trucks, buses,… … English World dictionary
