Orkn. & Shetl. dial. Also 7, 9 vore, 9 vor, vour. [a. Norw. vaar, = Da. vaar, Sw. vår, ON. and Icel. vár spring: see WARE sb.] The spring; seed-time. Also vore-time.
1629. Orkney Witch Trial, in County Folk-Lore, III. (1903), 76. Being accusit thairupoun be the said Michaell in vore tyme. Ibid., 78. Sex yeiris sene or thairby in vore.
1806. P. Neill, Tour, 58. If a man and a dog land upon some of the islands in vor-time, i.e. Spring.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., Vor, Voar, Vour, the spring-time.
1856. Eliza Edmondston, Sk. & Tales Shetland, xi. 135. I ought to go to help our poor father and mother to get their voar finished.
1871. R. Cowie, Shetland, II. viii. 159. The operations of ‘Vore’ (as the seed-time is called in Shetland) do not commence until the end of March.
