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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spinney
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ahead of him a whole spinney of the tree men awaited.
▪ At a twist in the river lay the spinney, a clump of birch saplings sprouting through a thicket of bramble.
▪ But with a bit of money spent you could have a nice little spinney there - be pretty in the spring.
▪ Just after dawn that day her corpse, cold and hard, had been found in a rat-infested spinney.
▪ Millions of small birds now sing in the hedges and spinneys.
▪ The dragon continued through the spinney, incinerating every likely-looking bush and clump of ferns.
▪ There was a spinney they'd made their own, by the river.
▪ They did this by developing game crops, game spinneys, small woods, and unsprayed or carefully sprayed headlands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
spinney

Spinny \Spin"ny\, n.; pl. Spinnies. [OF. espinaye,espinoye, espinei, espanoi, F. ['e]pinaie, from L. spinetum a thicket of thorns, fr. spina a thorn. See Spine.] A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.

The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.
--C. Kingsley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spinney

"copse, thicket," 1590s, from Old French espinoi "briar-patch, place full of thorns and brambles" (13c., Modern French épinaie), from espine or from Latin spinetum "thorn hedge, thicket" (see spine).

Wiktionary
spinney

alt. (context UK English) A small copse or wood#Noun, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds. n. (context UK English) A small copse or wood#Noun, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.

WordNet
spinney

n. a copse that shelters game

Wikipedia
Spinney

Spinney may refer to:

Surname:

  • Art Spinney (born 1927), guard who played nine seasons with the Baltimore Colts in the National Football League
  • Caroll Spinney (born 1933), American puppeteer and cartoonist, playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street
  • Edgar Keith Spinney, PC (1851–1926), Canadian politician
  • Franklin C. Spinney (born 1945), American former military analyst for the Pentagon, author of the "Spinney Report"
  • George Wilbur Spinney (died 1948), president of Bank of Montreal from December 1942 until his death

Usage examples of "spinney".

IfAlison had been in the spinney when she was snatched, why was the dog tied up in a woodland clearing a quarter of a mile away?

As soon as they entered the spinney, they lost most of the afternoon light.

You see, sir, we have been told that you were seen walking from the woodland where we found Shep to the spinney where we discovered what we believe to be traces of a struggle involving Alison.

In Scardale, the first leaves were starting to unfurl in copse and spinney as Catherine drove down into the village.

Scarlaston woodland and the spinney the very afternoon Alison disappeared.

Valentina Grigorievna shook hands with Spinney in a comradely fashion.

But the knockout Spinney gave him yesterday he regarded as nothing less than a blot on his escutcheon.

He floundered in the water, knowing Spinney was not going to help him and ashamed to call for help in her presence.

They made off, the girls looking back now and then and staring at Spinney, their eyes screwed up, some with spite, others with puzzlement.

But Spinney had time to notice the reflection of Valentina Grigorievna behind her.

Sergei said and ran into the water to retrieve the ball throwing Spinney an angry look.

They saw Spinney clear the charp rocks and make a clean dive, almost without any spray.

Grigorievna wanted to hug Spinney, but the girl slipped out of her arms and ran off.

They swelled out unexpectedly, and Spinney had the feeling the rock was moving to meet them.

He and Eleanor were walking down the dirt track to his chalet in Berrybut Spinney, a couple of kilometres along the shore from Edith Weston.