slue

To rotate something on an axis.

raise the boom[…] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon

To turn something sharply.

[…]then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed, and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle,

To rotate on an axis; to pivot.

To slide off course; to skid.

The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.

Alternative spelling of slough (“a marshy or swampy place”) (reflecting the alternative pronunciation).