| 释义 |
voe Orkney and Shetland dial.|vəʊ|
[ad. Norw. vaag (vɔːg), ON. and Icel. vág-r (mod. Icel. vog-r), bay, inlet.]
A bay, creek, or inlet.
a1688J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 93 Voe, a Creek or Bay, or firth, or inlet. a1733Shetland Acts 33 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 201 That none fish with haddock lines within voes from Belton to Martinmas. 1791Statist. Acc. Scotl. I. 389 The voes, by which the parish [sc. Delting] is intersected. 1821Scott Pirate i, A comfortable roadstead..with the house situated on the side of an inland voe. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 384/1 Tracts of cultivated and fertile land, generally near the voes and the sea-coasts. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 60 In the voes of Orkney, Haco, Thou didst spread thy prideful sail.
attrib.1898J. Nicholson Sprigs Hedder 25 He was not long in walking round the voe-head. |