Slue vs Sue - What's the difference?
slue | sue |
(nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
To turn something sharply.
* Charles Dickens
To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
To slide off course; to skid.
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
A slough; a run or wet place.
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
As verbs the difference between slue and sue
is that slue is (nautical) to rotate something on an axis while sue is .As a noun slue
is the act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.slue
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Alternative forms
* (mostly British ) slewVerb
(slu)- They laughed, and slued themselves round.
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(en noun)Anagrams
*sue
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Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.