slue

English

Alternative forms

• (mostly British) slew

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: slew

Verb

slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing, simple past and past participle slued)

1. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
2. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
   • Charles Dickens

     They laughed, and slued themselves round.

3. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.

Translations

to rotate something on an axis

to turn something sharply

to pivot

to skid

Noun

slue (plural slues)

1. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
2. A slough; a run or wet place.

Translations

act of sluing

Anagrams

• lues