- a variation of slew.
slue
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The king of England with his people following in chase of the Frenchmen slue manie, and tooke a great number of prisoners, amongst whome was the French kings chéefe treasurer.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
There was nothing to do but stay on board and tow that dreary barge, filled with hot, red, baked-looking ore, out to the ship, unload, and go back up the slue.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
There was danger also that the tow-line might slue both men into the icy waters and upset the boat.
From Dan Merrithew by J. V. McFall
Ye haue heard how the Danes slue Osrike and Ella kings of Northumberland.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed
Pull port, back starboard, and slue the boat round with her nose toward them.
From The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron by J. Schonberg
There were the narrow slues, the crowding shoals, the blind turns of Nantucket Sound, dreaded in all weathers, but a mariner's horror in a fog.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
My head slues round on my neck, Music rolls, but not from the organ, Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Our pants were all wet from crossing "slues" and watercourses during the night, and we were too tired to sit up and dry them out before going to sleep.
From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Samuel A. Swiggett
The car spun back onto the track and then slued to the side.
From Time Magazine Archive
A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The car slued into a line of coffins, knocking one over, and finally rolled to a halt, after coming within ten feet of French Defense Minister Charles Hernu.
From Time Magazine Archive
On early runs over the bumpy, damp salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, the long, low car had slued into stomach-stopping skids.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he spoke, Rodney had ground his heel heavily into the snow, and the sled slued sharply to the right.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
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
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
