slue

verb

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 tenon”

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,”

3. (intransitive)To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
4. (intransitive)To slide off course; to skid.
5. (alt-of, obsolete)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.”

noun

1. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).