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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

Why can't your mate there hand me the end of that painter, and slue her round?

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

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

Also, a hawser laid out to some fixed object to slue a vessel proceeding to sea.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

But you can slue your seat round and work your gun from the right if you like.

From With Haig on the Somme by Archibald Webb

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

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

For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt.

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

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

A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the tug veered to starboard to round Governor's Island the tow-line slued to port and thence quickly to starboard.

From Dan Merrithew by J. V. McFall

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

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

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

There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner