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sluing

sluing is the present participle and gerund of slue.

Meaning of slue

Verb

slue (third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued)

  1. (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 tenon1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10
  2. (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
  3. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
  4. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.

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Questions about sluing

What is sluing the present participle and gerund of?
Sluing is the present participle and gerund of slue.

Words near sluing in the dictionary

  1. sluicing one's bolt
  2. sluicing out
  3. sluicingly
  4. sluicings
  5. sluicy
  6. sluing
  7. Sluis
  8. sluit
  9. sluits
  10. slum
  11. slum cannon

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