fleete

See also: Fleete

English

Noun

fleete (plural fleetes)

1. Obsolete spelling of fleet.
   • 1665 October 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 1st, 1665 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 100:

     He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.

Middle English

Verb

fleete

1. alternative form of fleten

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.

Verb

fleete

1. (Mooring, of a liquid, one’s nose) to run

Conjugation

Conjugation of fleete (Mooring dialect)

infinitive I	fleete
infinitive II	(tu) fleeten
infinitive III	än fleet
past participle	flååt
	present	past
3rd-person singular	fleet	flååt
3rd-person plural	fleete	flååten
	perfect	pluperfect
3rd-person singular	heet flååt	häi flååt
3rd-person plural	hääwe flååt	häin flååt
	future (schale)	future (wårde)
3rd-person singular	schal fleete	wårt fleete
3rd-person plural	schan fleete	wårde fleete