Slew

slew
    n 1: (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"; "see the
         rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
         have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
         money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great
         deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
         {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile},
         {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew},
         {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
    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}, {slew}, {cut}]
    2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
       manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
       {skid}, {slip}, {slue}, {slew}, {slide}]
    

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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Slew \Slew\, v. t.
   See {Slue}.
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Slew \Slew\,
   imp. of {Slay}.
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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.
                                                  1.
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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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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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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