- mainly found in Orkney, this word of Scandinavian origin denotes an inlet of the sea that may be cut off by a bar of shingle. The Scottish National Dictionary notes that the diminutive form Ossag was used to describe the mouth of the Thurso River by a local 'informant' (a dictionary spy) in 1964.
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