slue
/sluː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "[…]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,"
- "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."