slue

present singular third person slues · participle present sluing · participle present slueing · participle past slued · past slued · alternative Commonwealth UK slew

1. transitivenauticalTo rotate something on an axis.

   raise the boom[…] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon

   1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10

2. transitiveTo turn something sharply.

   […]then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed, and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle,

   1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

3. intransitiveTo rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4. intransitiveTo slide off course; to skid.

plural slues · alternative Commonwealth UK slew

1. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
2. especially locomotionnauticalSynonym of yaw: The degree of freedom of an object such as the bogie of a train car to pivot about its vertical axis.

   Synonyms: yaw

plural slues · alternative Commonwealth UK slew

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).

alternative Commonwealth UK slew

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.

   Hee moreouer ſpecially noteth for the reſt, one Piero Calis, who (in driuing whole droues of that naked people) ſlue all that were not able to trauell, without regard of age, ſexe, or their vſe of labour , which in reſpect of a continuall eaſe;was moſt hard and intollerable to them.

   1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: […] Richard Field, page 22