slue
verb (used with object)
to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
slues
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present tense formof slue (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
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
