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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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Footnotes

  1. 1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book ‎, page 10: ↩

  2. 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations ‎: ↩

  3. 1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: […] Richard Field, page 22: ↩

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