Definition of "slue"

slue

/sluː/

verb
third-person singular simple present slues, present participle sluing or slueing, simple past and past participle slued
1. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
  Quotations
  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
2. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
  Quotations
  […] 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.
noun
plural slues
1. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
2. A slough; a run or wet place.