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Definition of Slued
1. slue [v] - See also: slue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slued
Literary usage of Slued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1899)
"... and the load pressed upon the horses so that he could not manage them, and
thereupon his wagon slued upon ice thirty to thirty-five rods, ..."
2. Military Laws: Containing: Extracts from the Federal and State Constitutions by Virginia Adjutant General's Office, Adjutant General's Office, Virginia (1820)
"... other than those novy re- tred as the law directs, the Court Martial, before
armed, &c. whom the same shall be tried, may, if it shall appear slued? ..."
3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1904)
"The first load was 2 tons lifted through a height of 20 feet by the single gear,
slued through 180 degrees, and then lowered 20 feet; the Hght chain hoisted ..."
4. The Hudson: Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce (1907)
"It would surely be an " experience " for us to see the passengers at West Point,
Newburgh, or Poughkeepsie " slued ashore" to-day in little rowboats. ..."
5. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1908)
"There is no other testimony on this point; nothing tending to show that the jacks
were defective, or that they gave way, or the car slued because of any ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, and of Provincialisms Used in the by William Henry Long (1886)
"slued. Intoxicated, drunk. ... and come back about dree parts slued; as much as
ever he can zee a hole in a ladder. ..."
7. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1901)
"This also could only be put in on Sundays and at times when the lines were slued
in temporary positions. Drainage is provided for by gratings at intervals. ..."
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