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
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Slue
//sluː//
Synonyms for "slue" (30 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 1 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- въртене около ос noun (act of sluing)
- въртя verb (to rotate something on an axis)
- въртя се около ос verb (to pivot)
- извъртам verb (to turn something sharply)
Sample sentences
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[…]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,
Source: wiktionary
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.
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