Orkn. & Shetl. dial. [ad. Norw. vaag, ON. and Icel. vág-r (mod. Icel. vog-r), bay, inlet.] A bay, creek or inlet.

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a. 1688.  J. Wallace, Descr. Orkney (1693), 93. Voe, a Creek or Bay, or firth, or inlet.

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a. 1733.  Shetland Acts, 33, in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892), XXVI. 201. That none fish with haddock lines within voes from Belton to Martinmas.

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1797.  Statist. Acc. Scotl., I. 389. The voes, by which the parish [sc. Delting] is intersected.

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1821.  Scott, Pirate, i. A comfortable roadstead … with the house situated on the side of an inland voe.

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1841.  Penny Cycl., XXI. 384/1. Tracts of cultivated and fertile land, generally near the voes and the sea-coasts.

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1872.  Blackie, Lays Highl., 60. In the voes of Orkney, Haco, Thou didst spread thy prideful sail.

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  attrib.  1898.  J. Nicholson, Sprigs Hedder, 25. He was not long in walking round the voe-head.

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