Literary notes about Slue (AI summary)
The term “slue” demonstrates remarkable versatility in literature. In some contexts, it serves as a verb meaning to kill or slaughter—as seen when historical or violent narratives recount how a tyrant “slue” his enemies [1][2][3]. In other instances, “slue” functions in a mechanical or nautical sense, denoting a turn or pivot, such as when a ship is maneuvered [4][5][6]. Moreover, the term appears as part of character nicknames in dialect-rich narratives—“Slue Foot” is used both to describe a physical peculiarity and as an identifier with a larger-than-life personality [7][8]. This multiplicity of meanings enriches the text by intertwining physical action with evocative, regional color.
- But others write that he was a verie tyrant, and vsed himselfe verie cruellie towards the lords of his land, wherevpon they rebelled and slue him.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Raphael Holinshed - According wherevnto (the duke of Burgognie shrinking) he burnt townes, spoiled and slue manie people in Picardie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9) Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift by Raphael Holinshed - Londoners came thither, and giuing battell to the Danes, slue foure of the chiefe capteins.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8)The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed - Also, a hawser laid out to some fixed object to slue a vessel proceeding to sea.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth - We now pass Hunter’s Point, and slue gradually round towards the North river.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton - Pull port, back starboard, and slue the boat round with her nose toward them.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood - As they drew into Camp Two's clearing Slue Foot cocked a weatherwise eye skyward.
— from Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx - He had known good men and bad men, but never had he known a man whom he so utterly despised as this Slue Foot Magee.
— from Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
