voe
nounUK /vəʊ/ · US /voʊ/
Etymology Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Norn, from Old Norse vágr (“inlet, bay”). Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Faroese vágur. Doublet of way.
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UK A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.
- On a fine summer's evening, an inhabitant of Unst happened to be walking along the sandy margin of a voe.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 268: