Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
fleet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To float; to swim.
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Examples
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March 29, 2010 at 6:01 am conga ratz tu teh flete-fingahd anni!
*snicker* *snicker* *snicker* - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Yes | No | Report from rey flete wrote 3 years 6 weeks ago
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And zif a man caste iren there in, it wole flete aboven.
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And zif a man caste iren there in, it wole flete aboven.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Theie urg'd the warre, the natyves fledde, as flete
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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To ken [7] syke [8] large a flete, syke fyne, syke breme [9].
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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El flete del aceite y el de los vinos: The freight on oil, and that on wine.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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And zif a man caste iren there in, it wole flete aboven.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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English ships, and to endeuour by their best meanes, to intercept, take, and spoile them, their persons, and goods: they hereupon thought it their best course to set out their flete for Turkie, in such strength and abilitie for their defence, that the purpose of their Spanish enemie might the better be preuented, and the voyage accomplished with greater securitie to the men and shippes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Briton, woulde be a matter in shorte space of greater domage as well to his flete as to his westerne Indies; for wee shoulde not onely often tymes indaunger his flete in the returne thereof, but also in fewe yeres put him in hazarde in loosinge some parte of Nova Hispania.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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