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- noun Plural form of
slue .
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Examples
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They also are abundant in many of the spillways and in the tidal creeks at the slues gates.
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He has dropped it now, and he slues his gun into position -- but with one arm only!
With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915
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There were the narrow slues, the crowding shoals, the blind turns of Nantucket Sound, dreaded in all weathers, but a mariner's horror in a fog.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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Besides, (as we learn from enquiry,) there has been about eight hundred (800) feet of preparatory work done in filling up of the various slues (which have cut out) with stone, and leveling up to low water mark the line of the permanent breakwater, which will greatly facilitate future operations.
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And make it they did In less than a week, this indomitable engineer had carried his moving caravan over slues and branches, across bottoms and along divides, and pitched his tents in the very heart of the city of
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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And make it they did In less than a week, this indomitable engineer had carried his moving caravan over slues and branches, across bottoms and along divides, and pitched his tents in the very heart of the city of
The Gilded Age, Part 2. Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The wind was still blowing a gale, but by running along close to the shore of the stormy bay, we were enabled, by adding greatly to our distance, to escape the difficulties against which we contended yesterday, and regained the slues with tolerably dry garments.
Townsend Chapter 16 1839
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I have not observed that the Indians often attempt fishing in the "big river," where it is wide and deep; they generally prefer the slues, creeks, &c.
Townsend Chapter 8 1839
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We passed through a number of narrow slues which connect the numerous bays in this part of the country, and at noon debarked, left our canoe, took our blankets on our shoulders and struck through the midst of a deep pine forest.
Townsend Chapter 16 1839
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But jest then Billy -- who's gettin 'rather tired o' all this foolishness -- kinder slues round on his hind legs, and ketches sight o 'the parson! "
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869
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