- a variation of slew.
slue
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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
But the hot wind sprang up and blew fiercely, and we lay off and on all day, until it was calm enough to tow her back to the slue.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
We spent seven days in and out of that slue.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
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
That day we had a little diversion, for we saw the "Gila" come down the river and up the slue, and tie up directly alongside of us.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
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
For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt.
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 spun back onto the track and then slued to the side.
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
It slued around, and its rear part lifted.
From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
We dashed sluing away down the country road, and then I turned to look at my old friend.
From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown
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
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
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
All the morning the gunners followed those orders blindly, sluing the hot gun-muzzles a fraction this way or that, making minute adjustments on sights and range drums and shell fuses.
From Between the Lines by Boyd Cable
