Slew

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slew \Slew\ (sl[=oo]), n. [See {Slough} a wet place.]
     A wet place; a river inlet.
  
           The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy,
           especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
                                                    --T.


                                                    Roosevelt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slew \Slew\, v. t.
     See {Slue}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slew \Slew\,
     imp. of {Slay}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slay \Slay\, v. t. [imp. {Slew}; p. p. {Slain}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Slaying}.] [OE. slan, sl?n, sleen, slee, AS. sle['a]n to
     strike, beat, slay; akin to OFries. sl[=a], D. slaan, OS. &
     OHG. slahan, G. schlagen, Icel. sl[=a], Dan. slaae, Sw. sl?,
     Goth. slahan; perhaps akin to L. lacerare to tear to pieces,
     Gr. ????, E. lacerate. Cf. {Slaughter}, {Sledge} a hammer,
     {Sley}.]
     To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to
     kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
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           With this sword then will I slay you both. --Chaucer.
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           I will slay the last of them with the sword. --Amos ix.
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           I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. --Shak.
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     Syn: To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slue \Slue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sluing}.] [Prov. E. slew to turn round, Scot. to lean or
     incline to a side; cf. Icel. sn?a to turn, bend.] [Written
     also {slew}.]
     1. (Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or
        axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also
        of any heavy body.
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     2. In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used
        reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]
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              They laughed, and slued themselves round. --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slay
       v : kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
           ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {hit}, {dispatch},
            {bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
       [also: {slew}, {slain}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slew
       n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
           "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
           money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
           have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
           deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
            {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot},
            {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
           sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
       v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the
            left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
            right" [syn: {swerve}, {sheer}, {curve}, {trend}, {veer},
             {slue}, {cut}]
       2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
          manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: {skid},
           {slip}, {slue}, {slide}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slew
       See {slay}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "slew":
     batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal,
     gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove,
     hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots,
     mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot,
     quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight,
     slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum,
     trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp