fleeter

English

Adjective

fleeter

1. comparative form of fleet: more fleet

Noun

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.