voe

plural voes · alternative vae · alternative vo

1. UKA 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

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   The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.

   1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 142

1. A village in Delting parish, Mainland, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU4063).
2. A small settlement in Northmavine parish, north Mainland, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU3381).