- 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
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We were trying to get up a slue, or back channel, by a short cut, and the stern-wheel never spun twice in the same direction.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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
But the hot wind sprang up and blew fiercely, and we lay off and on all day, until it was calm enough to tow her back to the slue.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
But you can slue your seat round and work your gun from the right if you like.
From With Haig on the Somme by Archibald Webb
To raise, or slue, weighty bodies by means of a lever purchase or power.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
On early runs over the bumpy, damp salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, the long, low car had slued into stomach-stopping skids.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The car spun back onto the track and then slued to the side.
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
Also, the ship slued round by means of guys.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
We dashed sluing away down the country road, and then I turned to look at my old friend.
From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown
With a sluing lurch to his stride he started off down the street, into the lashing rain.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
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
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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