Crossword clues for slue
slue
- Swamp
- Twist about
- Twist or veer
- Turned sharply
- Take a swing?
- Do a quick turnaround
- Change direction abruptly
- Pivot on point
- Twist around
- Swivel around
- Swing a spar around
- Revolve on an axis
- Fishtail, e.g
- Turn on its own axis
- Slip off course
- ___-Foot Sue (Pecos Bill's gal)
- Twist or turn
- Turn that sounds like a lot
- Swivel sharply
- Swivel about an axis
- Swing around, nautically
- Swing around a pivot
- Spin around a shaft
- Sliding movement
- Skid round
- Skid about
- Pivot around an axis
- Move, as on a swivel chair
- Swing around on an axis
- Turn about an axis
- Pivot around a pole
- Twist around an axis
- Turn on a pivot
- Swing about
- Turn on an axis
- Swing on an axis
- Fishtail, e.g.
- Turn around
- Swivel on an axis
- Zig or zag
- Turn sharply about a mast
- Pivot on an axis
- Turn; veer
- Skid sidewise
- Veer; twist
- Twist sideways
- Veer sharply (var.)
- Slide to the side
- Turn sideways
- Nautical twist
- Turn; twist
- Veer off
- Turn a mast
- River inlet
- Move sideways
The Collaborative International Dictionary
sloo \sloo\ (sl[=oo]), or slue \slue\ (sl[=u]), n. A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
Slough \Slough\, n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[=o]h a hollow place; cf. MHG. sl[=u]ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.]
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A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
--Chaucer.He's here stuck in a slough.
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[Pronounced sl[=oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. 2 A slough; a run or wet place. vb. 1 (context transitive nautical English) To rotate something on an axis. 2 (context transitive English) To turn something sharply. 3 (context intransitive English) To rotate on an axis; to pivot. 4 (context intransitive English) To slide off course; to skid.
WordNet
v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slew, cut]
move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid, slip, slew, slide]
Usage examples of "slue".
He shook his head, furious with himself, and strode onward, donning his dark glasses as he reached the big open platform between the tubes where dead cultures were slued for drying, lysis, and recycling to the organic intake pipe.
River of Pamunke, who having been kindly entertained by Powhatan their Emperour, they returned thence, and discovered the River of Topahanocke, where being received with like kindnesse, yet he slue the King, and tooke of his people, and they supposed I were bee, but the people reported him a great man that was Captaine, and using mee kindly, the next day we departed.
Slue, argued by Holt himself, in which the liability of masters of ships, hoymen, carriers, &c.
There was patch ice under the new snow in places, and once when he braked for a stoplight at the corner of Crestallen and Garner, the LTD slued around almost sideways.
As the Terran slued about on the sand pile, the narrow beam of the torch swept across a tunnel mouth large enough to give Surra passage or to accommodate a man on his hands and knees.
Bill slued into the approach, deliberately skidding the rear wheels and braking.
He slued across the strip at 300 mph without any exact knowledge where he was going or how long he could last.
The car slued, scraping against the piling on the left and almost dislodging Yola's hole-stuffing.
The Chevrolet slued wildly, and Dillinger fought with the wheel as the car spun around and finally came to a stop.
Cummings, an F-14 Radar Intercept Officer, or RIO, slued his cursor over to capture the offending blip.
The symbology for target-fire-control designation popped into being on his screen, and he slued his chair around to stare at the weapons technician manning the fire-control console.
The ship slammed into a massive tree and slued to starboard, spinning like a disk as it buzz-sawed through the upper reaches of the canopy.
Still half in the grip of the dazed grid, the Prominence slued sharply to starboard, flying over the plaza and headed straight for the city's northernmost pyramid.
With the area momentarily cleared of fighting, the copter slued around and landed right in front of the boulder where the three fugitives were hiding.
With barely a backward glance at the havoc he'd wrought, Jules slued his craft around and headed for the southern emplacement.