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The baskets of sausage covets were slewing around from one side of his sled to the other, and we expected every moment one of them would flop over into our cutter.

From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

But when Joby tried them, what was his disappointment to find the cast as bad as ever?—only now they were slewing right the other way, towards the South Pole.

From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

We sprang down the bank again to load, just as the men serving the gun were slewing it around, so as to bring it to bear upon us.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various