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Encyclopedia Britannica



FLEET

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 492 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FLEET , a word in all its significances, derived from the root of the verb " to fleet," from 0. Eng. fleotan, to
float
  or flow, which ultimately derives from an Indo-European root seen in Gr. irMLv, to sail, and Lat. pluere, to rain; cf. Dutch oliessen, and Ger. fliessen. In
English
  usage it survives in the name of many places, such as Byfleet and Northfleet, and in the Fleet, a stream in London that formerly ran into the Thames between the bottom of Ludgate Hill and the present Fleet
Street
 . From the
idea
  of "
float
  " comes the application of the word to
ships
 , when in company, and particularly to a large number of warships under the supreme . command of a single officer, with the individual
ships
 , or groups of ships, under individual and sub-ordinate command. The distinction between a fleet and a
squadron
  is often one of name only. In the British navy the various
main
  divisions are or have been called fleets and squadrons indifferently. The word is also frequently used of a company of fishing vessels, and in fishing is also applied to a row of
drift
 -nets fastened together. From the
original
  meaning of the word " flowing " comes the adjectival use of the word,
swift
 , or speedy; so also " fleeting," of something evanescent or fading away, with the
idea
  of the fast-flowing lapse of time.


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