flotilla

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  1. noun A small fleet.
  2. noun A fleet of small craft.
  3. noun A U.S. Navy organizational unit of two or more squadrons of small warships.
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  • Then they called a flotilla, and the ships came by the hundreds They built cities and, at that, we moved away and left them alone, because we don't need cities. —  SEPTEMBER, 1953 Vol
  • Last campaign, the word flotilla was misunderstood. —  The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II.
  • Davies soon returned with his cans and an armful of dark, rye loaves, just in time, for, the liner being through, the flotilla was already beginning to jostle into the lock and Bartels was growing impatient. —  The Riddle of the Sands
  • David Axe goes to war so you don't have to nabbed a Ukrainian ship laden with smuggled weapons, an international naval flotilla is assembling to protect commercial shipping. —  War Is Boring
  • Leading the flotilla is our guide, a hardy Scandinavian named Olaf Malver. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
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  1. Spanish, diminutive of flota, fleet, from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French flotille (later D. flotille, flotilje = G. Danish flotille = Swedish flottilj) = Italian flottiglia, from Spanish flotilla (= Portuguese flotilha), a little fleet, diminutive of flota, a fleet: see float, n., flota.
 

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