- 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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California introduced me to the boat and the scenery, showed me the "texas," the difference between a "tow-head" and a "sawyer," and the precise nature of a "slue."
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
With the battle readiness of a disciplined soldier, Caleb Gordon whipped from the saddle and ran to help the gun crew slue the makeshift field-piece into position.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him, and the said lord Flemings friends.
From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed
On account of the wind, which blew again with great violence, the "Cocopah" could not leave the slue that day.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
His left leg seemed to slue about queerly just before it touched the floor.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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
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
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
The car spun back onto the track and then slued to the side.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt.
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
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
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
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
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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
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