slue

• (mostly British) slew

Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /sluː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: slew, slough

slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued)

1. (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

2. (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,

3. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.

slue (plural slues)

1. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
2. A slough; a run or wet place.

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “slew”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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