slue
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (mostly British) slew
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued)
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
- 1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book[1], page 10:
- 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
- (transitive) To turn something sharply.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations[2]:
- […] 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,
- (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
- (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
Translations[edit]
to pivot
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to skid
Noun[edit]
slue (plural slues)
Translations[edit]
act of sluing
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Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “slew”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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