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  • verb Present participle of slew.

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Examples

  • Moreover, the Greeks already designed a kind of slewing crane, which was a lifting device as described earlier but resting only on one mast, directed and kept in balance by extra men on the ground holding ropes.

    Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010

  • ISO9001: 2000 We are mainly manufature this kind of slewing bearing, the outer diameter is from 400mm to 5000mm. spherical roller bearing

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • It doesn't matter what President Obama does .. he could be doing the best job in the whole entire World and they would still be slewing hate-spewed rhetoric towards him ..

    Obama speech to school children: 'You make your own future' 2009

  • For me as a stay at home Mum for almost all my time here in Brisbane it was like slewing off one identity and taking on another.

    My Cliché of Choice « Write Anything 2009

  • The car cleared the crest and encountered the sand, going slower from moment to moment, slewing and writing and squirming from side to side.

    WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

  • But toward the end of the video you can see that the nozzle slewing to and fro which made me wonder if they were loosing control.

    Another Launch Success for SpaceX and Falcon 1 (video) - NASA Watch 2009

  • I consider it more along the lines of a Flexible Flyer careering down an icy hill, slewing hither and yon by the merest of bumps.

    Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010

  • My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • There was a red ball of fire clinging to her timbers just below the rail amid-ships, and even as we watched there was a climbing lick of flame - and over to the right, by some freakish chance, the ketch had been hit, too: there was a fire on her deck, and she was slewing round at anchor.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • The dyheli skidded to a halt as they reached the artifact, hips slewing a little sideways with the momentum of their run as they dug in their hooves, and Darian leaped from the saddle the moment they came to a halt.

    Elephant in the City 2010

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