2. Verb. (third-person singular of fleet) ¹
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Definition of Fleets
1. fleet [v] - See also: fleet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleets
Literary usage of Fleets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Cabot Lodge (1892)
"The powers falling within the first class are those of declaring war and granting
letters of marque ; of providing armies and fleets; of regulating and ..."
2. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Cabot Lodge (1888)
"The powers falling within the first class are those of declaring war and granting
letters of marque; of providing armies and fleets; of regulating and ..."
3. Pictorial History of the Russian War 1854-5-6 by George Dodd (1856)
"We have now to see how far the fleets were called upon to share in this forced
... England and France always maintain fleets in the Mediterranean : never in ..."
4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... and fince we know that the fleets of the Catholic kings do, in our days, ...
may conclude he knew how to fend his fleets thither, and bring home the ..."
5. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1886)
"The powers falling within the first class are those of declaring war and granting
letters of marque; of providing armies and fleets; of regulating and ..."
6. An Account of the European Settlements in America: Containing an Accurate by Edmund Burke, William Burke (1808)
"IV. Regulation of the Portuguese trade.—The description of St. Salvador, the
capital of Brazil.—The fleets for that city. ..."
7. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"But the English fleet, being moved by steam, kept on to windward; and presently
the French and the Turks began to sail off on opposite fleets are . ..."
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