slue
nounEtymology Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
1
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
- Derived terms
- slue-foot, slue-footed
slue
verb/sluː/
Etymology Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
- raise the boom[…] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10:
2
To turn something sharply.
- […]then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed, and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle,1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
3
To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4
To slide off course; to skid.