slue
Americanverb (used with object)
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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)
noun
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the act of sluing.
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a position slued to.
noun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of slue
First recorded in 1760–70; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Even if he does not turn completely round, he is forced to slue himself, as it is called, so far as to show some portion of his white belly.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil
Why can't your mate there hand me the end of that painter, and slue her round?
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The sailors in the battery were working with might and main to slue all the guns round to bear upon the pirates.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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