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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Oise, Oyse, Oyce, Oyesse, n.² [Norw. dial. øse, ON. ós-s, and in the later dial. of Orkney and Caithness.] An inlet of the sea; ? spec. a tidal inlet, one partially closed by a spit of shingle. (Chiefly applied to that at Kirkwall.) — 1486 (1536) Kirkwall Chart. 5.
Lie oyces Ib. 9.
Lie oyesses ejusdem in que fluit mare Ib. 5. 1578 Rec. Earld. Orkney 354.
And on the northt syid the see oise 1613 Orkney Account in Soc. Ant. X. 222.
For towing the schip out of Oyse 1624 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I. 118 b.
Togidder with the housis and ȝeird lyand fornent the samen within the oyse [sc. of Kirkwall] 1690 T. Brown Diary 63.
Ther being Patrick Fea's ship and Edward Scollay's lying in the trunck of the Oyce [pr. Oyre] —attrib. 1629 Craven Ch. in Orkney II. 159.
And convoyed be the said lockman to the oise mouth and there drowned in the sea