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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fleet, n.
 1. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
 Together wove we nets to entrap the fish
 In floods and sedgy fleets.   --Matthewes.
 2. A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
 Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.