Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inlet, bay, or creek.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.

Etymologies

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Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Old Norse vágr. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Icelandic vogur.

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  • "An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. --Jamieson." – Webster's Rev. Unab. Dict.

    May 5, 2008

  • i can confirm Shetland is replete with these.

    December 14, 2008

  • "still pointed westward

    down the long voe,

    down toward the ocean

    where the business is."

    - from "The Overhaul" by Kathleen Jamie, p 60 of the May 28, 2012 edition of the New Yorker

    May 30, 2012