fleeter

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Adjective

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fleeter

  1. comparative form of fleet: more fleet

Noun

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fleeter (plural fleeters)

  1. A member of a fleet.
    • 2002, Trevor Lummis, Occupation and Society: The East Anglian Fishermen 1880-1914, page 32:
      The response of a dispersed ownership, however, could not parallel that of a unified one as in the case of the Yarmouth fleeters.
    • 2010, Adam Ward, Everything You Didn't Need to Know About Australia:
      The ships that initially arrived in Australia with convict cargo were called the First Fleet. Those aboard were consequently the First Fleeters.