- a variation of slew.
slue
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Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him, and the said lord Flemings friends.
From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed
On account of the wind, which blew again with great violence, the "Cocopah" could not leave the slue that day.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
I say, fellows," Whistler stopped whistling long enough to observe, "there's a slue of water behind that dam.
From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
We were trying to get up a slue, or back channel, by a short cut, and the stern-wheel never spun twice in the same direction.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
It is what the river-men call a "slue channel"; and we had to take frequent soundings to follow it.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
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
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
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 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
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 spun back onto the track and then slued to the side.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bent black brows bent lower, and a large blue eye slued round into her profile, darting a sudden light at him.
From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair
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
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
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
The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
