slue
verb (used with object)
to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
sluing
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present participleof slue.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
As we looked, suddenly an armoured automobile appeared around the corner of the Mikhailovsky, its guns sluing this way and that.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
