- this Scots word for the neck is sometimes figuratively applied to a narrow water-channel. In The Orkney Norn (1929), Hugh Marwick noted the diminutive variant Hassie as a name for a narrow neck of water between Thieves-holm and the shore, holm being a term for a small island in the Scots of the Northern Isles. In other contexts it is used of narrow valleys, or narrow ridges connecting two heights.
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