Fleótan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fleótan

Add: I. to float, (1) to be supported on the surface of a liquid :-- Heó fleát áweg ofer ꝥ wæter tó lande. Shrn. 31, 21. Eahta daga fulla ꝥ ilce scip fleát (enatavit) wætres full, Gr. D. 249, ll. Nim eádoccan moran þá þe fleótan wille, Lch. iii. 6, 28. Fleótende fluitans, Germ. 401, 12. (2) of fish, to swim :-- Eall fleótendra fixa cyn and fleógendra fugla, Shrn. 65, 31, Þæt heó gesáwe fleótende fixas and fleógende fugelas, Wlfst. 3, 5. II. to flow :-- Ðá streámas ðe on neorxna wange fleótað, Sal. K. 190, 26. [N. E. D. fleet.] v. tó-fleótan fleotan