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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
Verb
slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued)
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10: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
- (transitive) To turn something sharply.
1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:[…] 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,
- (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
- (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
Translations
to rotate something on an axis
to turn something sharply
Noun
slue (plural slues)
- The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
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Etymology 2
Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced /slu/); compare slew (“wet or swampy place”).
Noun
slue (plural slues)
- A slough; a run or wet place.
Etymology 3
Verb
slue
- obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay
1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: Richard Field, page 22: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.
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