fleet n Cp COHEN, p. 85 for sense 2.
   1 1982 MCDOOLING 103 If you had two fleets of [salmon] nets, or one hundred and sixty fathoms, on your license, well that's all you'd ever get. 1987 POWELL 63 This [storm] had set one of my fleets of salmon nets adrift, and if we couldn't get the nets that evening they would be lost or tangled by an iceberg going south.
   2 1984 KELLAND 183 In setting a trawl preparatory to underrunning it, an anchor with the main trawl line, keg buoy, buoyline (called a haul-up line), moorings and slablines were dropped. The entire fleet of gear was then run out.

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