Definition of "Fleet"

Fleet

/fliːt/

proper noun
1. A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
  Quotations
  This is hard-core London, and just before Farringdon station you will be able to glimpse the vast steel pipe that carries what was the Fleet River and is now the Fleet sewer over your head.The Fleet looks safely contained now, although you never know. It surprises me that no terrorist has made common cause with the surly and embittered Fleet, which, in Peter Ackroyd's words became 'a river of death' as it sidled through the meanest streets of London en route to the Thames.
  2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 29
2. A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
3. A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
4. A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
5. A town in Hart district, Hampshire, England.
6. A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
7. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
8. A surname.