Crossword-Solution: SLUES 5 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

There were the narrow slues, the crowding shoals, the blind turns of Nantucket Sound, dreaded in all weathers, but a mariner's horror in a fog.

Our pants were all wet from crossing "slues" and watercourses during the night, and we were too tired to sit up and dry them out before going to sleep.

Well--this "Coon-dog Wess" he jest Moved in that-air little pen Of a pole-shed, aidgin' west On "The Slues o' Death," called then.-- Otter- and mink-hunters ust To camp thare 'fore game vam-moosd.

And the watch look pleased as Punches, Officers and men, For A.B.'s like JOHN are always Welcome back again! Over deck, and spars, and rigging JOHN he slues his eye; Gives a seaman's squint to leeward, Scanning sea and sky; At the binnacle he glances, Notes the course she steers; Nought on board or in the offing, Scapes his eyes and ears.