Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fleet \Fleet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fleeted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fleeting}.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS. fle['o]tan to
   swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG.
   fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to float, flow, Sw.
   flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. ? to sail, swim,
   float, Skr. plu to swim, sail. [root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, n. &
   a., {Float}, {Pluvial}, {Flow}.]
   1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]

            And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.
                                                  --Spenser.

   2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
      as a light substance.

            All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
            Dissolved on earth, fleet hither.     --Milton.

   3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
      or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.