slue - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Verb
slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participlesluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued)
- (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
- ✤ raise the boom […] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon1
- (transitive) 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,2
- (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
- (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
Noun
slue (plural slues)
- The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
Noun
slue (plural slues)
- Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).
- ✤ Alternative form: slew
Verb
slue
- Obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.
- ✤ Hee moreouer ſpecially noteth for the reſt, one Piero Calis, who (in driuing whole droues of that naked people) ſlue all that were not able to trauell, without regard of age, ſexe, or their vſe of labour, which in reſpect of a continuall eaſe;was moſt hard and intollerable to them.3
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sluː/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: slew, slough
Etymology 1
Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
Etymology 2
Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced/slu/).
Etymology 3
Printed 2026-09-15.
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