Found 2 items, similar to slews.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: slews
slews
n : a large number or amount;
“made lots of new friends”;
“she
amassed a mountain of newspapers” [syn:
tons,
dozens,
heaps,
lots,
mountain,
piles,
scores,
stacks,
loads,
rafts,
wads,
oodles,
gobs,
scads,
lashings]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: slew
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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