fleet

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," from fleotan "to float" (see FLEET (Cf. fleet) (v.)). Sense of "naval force" is pre-1200. The O.E. word also meant "creek, inlet, flow of water," especially one into the Thames near Ludgate Hill, which lent its name to Fleet Street (home of newspaper and magazine houses, standing for "the English press" since 1882), Fleet prison, etc.
{{12}}fleet (v.) O.E. fleotan "to float, drift, flow, swim, sail," later (c.1200) "to flow," from P.Gmc. *fleut- (Cf. O.Fris. fliata, O.S. fliotan "to flow," O.H.G. fliozzan "to float, flow," Ger. flieszen "to flow," O.N. fliota "to float, flow"), from PIE root *pleu- "to flow, run, swim" (see PLUVIAL (Cf. pluvial)). Meaning "to glide away like a stream, vanish imperceptibly" is from c.1200; hence "to fade, to vanish" (1570s). Related: Fleeted; FLEETING (Cf. fleeting).

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