fleeter

A member of a fleet.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of fleet: more fleet

Noun

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

Forms

fleeters