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slue en · NOUN · etymology 1

Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.

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slew		alternative	lexicographic
slues	Number=Plur		lexicographic

bg въртене около ос (act of sluing)

Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.

(transitive) 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 tenon 1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10:
(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, 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
(intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
(intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.

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slueing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
sluing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
slued	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
slued	Tense=Past		lexicographic
slues	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
slew		alternative	lexicographic

bg въртя се около ос (to pivot) · bg извъртам (to turn something sharply) · bg въртя (to rotate something on an axis)

Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced /slu/).

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).
alt of slough

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slues	Number=Plur		lexicographic
slew		alternative	lexicographic

(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.
alt of slew
- 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. 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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slew		alternative	lexicographic