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单词 voe
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voen.

Brit. /vəʊ/, U.S. /voʊ/
Etymology: < Norwegian vaag /vɔːɡ/, Old Norse and Icelandic vág-r (modern Icelandic vog-r), bay, inlet.
Orkney and Shetland dialect.
A bay, creek, or inlet.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea
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bracec1400
lough1423
firthc1425
loch1427
resort1477
estuarya1552
inshot1555
mere1574
portlet1577
fret1587
frith1600
sea-gate1605
creek1625
sea-lochc1645
wick1664
fjord1674
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backwater1867
strait gulf1867
ocean-arm1871
ria1887
fjard1904
geo1934
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 93 Voe, a Creek or Bay, or firth, or inlet.
a1733 Shetland Acts 33 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 201 That none fish with haddock lines within voes from Belton to Martinmas.
1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 389 The voes, by which the parish [sc. Delting] is intersected.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. i. 18 A comfortable roadstead..with the house situated on the side of an inland voe.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 384/1 Tracts of cultivated and fertile land, generally near the voes and the sea-coasts.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 60 In the voes of Orkney, Haco, Thou didst spread thy prideful sail.
attributive.1898 J. Nicholson Sprigs Hedder 25 He was not long in walking round the voe-head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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