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noun

slue, sloo n. A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

Slue n. See Sloough, 2. (Local)

verb

Slue v. t. (past & past part. slued; pres. part. sluing) (Written also slew)

(Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; used also of any heavy body.

In general, to turn about; to twist; often used reflexively and followed by round. (Colloq.) "They laughed, and slued themselves round."

Slue v. i. To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; often followed by round.

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Etymology of 'Slue'

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"Slue" Quotes from Famous Books

... over the quarter you have merely to take care that the waves do not slue you around sidewise, and that the canoe does not dip water on one side or the other under the stress of your twists with the paddle. Dead astern is perhaps the most difficult of all, for the reason that you must watch both gunwales ...

— The Forest • Stewart Edward White

... it showed us that the carriers had no stomach left in them. One, though the froth froze on him, was sweating like a resty colt. The other two, if we slacked hold on their halter-ropes, would lurch together, halt, and slue neck to neck like a couple of timid dowagers hesitating upon a ...

— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... on the snow alters the course of the toboggin, and a nervous push makes it slue round, scattering the inmates, it is needless to say the tyro in front is admonished to preserve the most absolute immobility. Then the vehicle receives a shove off the top of the hill, and shoots down the smooth precipice, and ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... for vs to subdue Them, then our number, were the French no more; When in one Battaile twice our Fathers slue, Three times so many as themselues before, But to doe something that were strange and new: Wherefore (I aske you) Came we to this shore; Vpon these French our Fathers wan renowne, And with their swords we'll hewe ...

— The Battaile of Agincourt • Michael Drayton

... plebeian trolley. Accordingly, when he heard a foreign voice of feminine timbre and felt a light pressure against his knee, he only snorted. What he next felt against his knee was the impact of a half-shove, half-blow, brisk enough to slue him around. The intruder passed by to the vacant seat, while the now thoroughly awakened and annoyed Hochwaldian whirled, to find himself looking into a pair of expressionless ...

— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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