Slued vs Sued - What's the difference?
slued | sued |
(slue)
(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.
(sue)
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 slued and sued
is that slued is (slue) while sued is (sue).slued
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* * *slue
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* (mostly British ) slewVerb
(slu)- They laughed, and slued themselves round.
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*sued
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* *sue
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- 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.
