slue

Alternative forms

• (mostly British) slew

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: slew

Verb

slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, 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.

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.

Anagrams

• LEUs, Lues, Luse, lues