Click here for more pictures of Lake Merwin Day Use Park. Merwin Park at Lake Merwin is a day use area consisting of 135 picnic tables, parking for 250 vehicles, and a beach swim area. Open year around.
In mathematics 1  : Skew lines, lines that are neither parallel nor intersecting. 2  Skew-symmetric matrix, a square matrix whose transpose is also its negative. 3  Skew-Hermitian matrix, a complex square matrix whose conjugate transpose is also its negative.4  Infinite skew polyhedron, an extension of the concept of polyhedra. Skew-Hermitian matrix, a complex square matrix whose conjugate transpose is also its negative. 2  Infinite skew polyhedron, an extension of the concept of polyhedra. 3  Skew-symmetric graph, a directed graph that is isomorphic to its own transpose graph. 4  Skew polygon, a polygon whose vertices do not lie on a plane.
Indeed, slew is the past tense of slay. However, slew is also a verb in its own right that means turn ! In American informal usage* , the noun slew, as you rightly indicated, indicates a large number. As in your second example, slew of questions is not an uncommon phrase.