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lued

lued is the simple past and past participle of lu.

lued is the simple past and past participle of lue.

Meaning of lu

Noun

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

  1. (historical, usually) Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
    Synonyms:
    route or circuit

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Meaning of lue

Verb

lue (third-person singular simple present lues, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
    • Cardiganshire... That which is thus Buddled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water.1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 116

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Questions about lued

What is lued the simple past and past participle of?
Lued is the simple past and past participle of lu.

Words near lued in the dictionary

  1. Luebkes
  2. Lueck
  3. Luecke
  4. Lueckes
  5. Luecks
  6. lued
  7. Luedi
  8. Luedis
  9. Luedke
  10. Luedkes
  11. Luedtke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lued (page history and authors); lu (page history and authors); lue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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