slue

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To raise, or slue, weighty bodies by means of a lever purchase or power.

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

There was danger also that the tow-line might slue both men into the icy waters and upset the boat.

From Dan Merrithew by McFall, J. V.

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 Summerhayes, Martha

We spent seven days in and out of that slue.

From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha

California introduced me to the boat and the scenery, showed me the "texas," the difference between a "tow-head" and a "sawyer," and the precise nature of a "slue."

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard