fleet

A group of vessels or vehicles.

舰队

船队

Any group of associated items.

A large, coordinated group of people.

A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.

Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.

The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.

An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.

A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).

To float.

To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.

To flee, to escape, to speed away.

To evanesce, disappear, die out.

To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.

To move or change in position.

To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.

To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

To take the cream from; to skim.

Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.

Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.