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Fleetness

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fleet 1  (flt)
n.
1. A number of warships operating together under one command.
2. A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit.
[Middle English flete, from Old English flot, from flotan, to float; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.fleetness - rapidity of movement; "fleetness of foot"
celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, quickness - a rate that is rapid


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By great exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal flight, with added fleetness.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Consider the great variety of truthful and delicate thought in the few lines we have quotedthe wonder of the little maiden at the fleetness of her favorite-the "little silver feet"--the fawn challenging his mistress to a race with "a pretty skipping grace," running on before, and then, with head turned back, awaiting her approach only to fly from it again-can we not distinctly perceive all these things?
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Running has never been my particular athletic forte, and now when my very life depended upon fleetness of foot I cannot say that I ran any better than on the occasions when my pitiful base running had called down upon my head the rooter's raucous and reproachful cries of "Ice Wagon," and "Call a cab.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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