- a variation of slew.
slue
Americanverb (used with object)
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slues,
present (3rd person singular)
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slued,
past participle, past
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sluing
present participle
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to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
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to swing around.
verb (used without object)
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slues,
present (3rd person singular)
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slued,
past participle, past
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sluing
present participle
noun
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the act of sluing.
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a position slued to.
noun
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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sluesimple
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sluessimple
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have sluedperfect
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has sluedperfect
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am sluingprogressive
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are sluingprogressive
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is sluingprogressive
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have been sluingperfect progressive
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has been sluingperfect progressive
Past
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sluedsimple
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had sluedperfect
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was sluingprogressive
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were sluingprogressive
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had been sluingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of slue
First recorded in 1760–70; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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So his, which Women slue, And it int' Hebrus threw, Such sounds yet forth it sent, The Bankes to weepe that drue, 40As downe the streame it went.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
I say, fellows," Whistler stopped whistling long enough to observe, "there's a slue of water behind that dam.
From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Sometimes a single missile would slue its way in through everything and end with a sob against the inside wall.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
Then with a violent contortion you slue your body round and serve, whereupon your opponent perceives that you ARE playing, and that it is just one more ordinary fault into the wrong court.
From The Holiday Round by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
It is what the river-men call a "slue channel"; and we had to take frequent soundings to follow it.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
My head slues round on my neck, Music rolls, but not from the organ, Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
There were the narrow slues, the crowding shoals, the blind turns of Nantucket Sound, dreaded in all weathers, but a mariner's horror in a fog.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Our pants were all wet from crossing "slues" and watercourses during the night, and we were too tired to sit up and dry them out before going to sleep.
From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Samuel A. Swiggett
Christmas trees were still under drastic Bolshevik ban as Christmas 1935 came to Russia, but just before New Year's Day the Kremlin's policy slued completely around.
From Time Magazine Archive
For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt.
From Time Magazine Archive
A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The car slued into a line of coffins, knocking one over, and finally rolled to a halt, after coming within ten feet of French Defense Minister Charles Hernu.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he moved, the Englishman noticed that he slued slightly to the left—saw the twisted limb.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
There was no sudden sluing of the needle, due to an amateurish device which Cleigh himself had constructed.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
All the morning the gunners followed those orders blindly, sluing the hot gun-muzzles a fraction this way or that, making minute adjustments on sights and range drums and shell fuses.
From Between the Lines by Boyd Cable
The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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