Meaning

(transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
2. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
3. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
5. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
6. Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).
7. Obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.

Example Sentences

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

[…]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,

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.

Word Forms

• slues
• sluing
• slueing
• slued
• slew

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Use slue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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