slue
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slue¹
- /sluː/
Sounds like slew, slough · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
verb slues · sluing · slueing · slued · slew
- To rotate something on an axis. raise the boom[…] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon
- To turn something sharply. […]then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed, and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle,
- To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
- To slide off course; to skid.
noun slues · slew
- The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
slue²
- /sluː/
Sounds like slew, slough · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced /slu/).
noun slues · slew
- Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).slough
slue³
- /sluː/
Sounds like slew, slough · Rhymes with -uː
verb slew
- Obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.slew Hee moreouer ſpecially noteth for the reſt, one Piero Calis, who (in driuing whole droues of that naked people) ſlue all that were not able to trauell, without regard of age, ſexe, or their vſe of labour , which in reſpect of a continuall eaſe;was moſt hard and intollerable to them.
