fleeter
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fleeter
- comparative form of fleet: more fleet
Noun
[edit]fleeter (plural fleeters)
- 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.