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voar Orkney and Shetland dial.|vɔə(r)|
Also 7, 9 vore, 9 vor, vour.
[a. Norw. vaar (vɔːr), = Da. vaar, Sw. vår, ON. and Icel. vár spring: see ware n.]
The spring; seed-time. Also vore-time.
1629Orkney 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. 1806P. Neill Tour 58 If a man and a dog land upon some of the islands in vor-time, i.e. Spring. 1825Jamieson Suppl., Vor, Voar, Vour, the spring-time. 1856E. Edmondston Sk. & Tales Shetland xi. 135, I ought to go to help our poor father and mother to get their voar finished. 1871R. 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. |