See slue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: […] Richard Field, page 22:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"obsolete spelling of slew.; simple past of slay"
],
"links": [
[
"slew",
"slew#English"
],
[
"slay",
"slay#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sluː/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-uː"
},
{
"homophone": "slew"
},
{
"homophone": "slough"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"British"
],
"word": "slew"
}
],
"word": "slue"
}
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