Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sloo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sloo \Sloo\, or Slue \Slue\, n.
A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d {Slough}, 2.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slough \Slough\, n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[=o]h a hollow
place; cf. MHG. sl[=u]ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to
swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug
to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.]
1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
--Chaucer.
He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton.
2. [Pronounced sl[=oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel
or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt {sloo},
and {slue}.]
{Slough grass} (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for
grasses of the genus {Muhlenbergia}; -- called also {drop
seed}, and {nimble Will}.
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