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Reenforcement :: Reenforcement (n.) That which reenforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc..

Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort..

Becalm :: Becalm (v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed..

Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To sail; to float.

Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim.

Flotilla :: Flotilla (n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels..

Fleetly :: Fleetly (adv.) In a fleet manner; rapidly.

Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.

Van :: Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle..

Division :: Division (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Light-winged :: Light-winged (a.) Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.

Swiftness :: Swiftly (adv.) In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain..

Storey :: Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like..

Fleetings :: Fleetings (n. pl.) A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.

Fleeting :: Fleeting (a.) Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments..

Flote :: Flote (v. t.) To fleet; to skim.

Pacha :: Pacha () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

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