The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (alternative spelling of spinney English) Etymology 2
a. (context informal English) Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion. Etymology 3
a. (context UK dialect obsolete English) thin and long; slim; slender
Usage examples of "spinny".
And Sir Alured rejoiced in the idea that when his ghost should look at the survey map, that hiatus of Barnton Spinnies would not trouble his spectral eyes.
As arrangements were already in progress for the purchase of Barnton Spinnies, Sir Alured could not possibly leave his own house.
The Long Spinny, under whose cover they would find protection from the wind and tempest, seemed to be farther away than ever it had been before, though many a time during his life he had made his way safely to it through dense fogs and midnight storms.
Stephen stopped and rubbed his eyes, as if to clear away the film that hid the Long Spinny from his view.
They were beaten back by the snow and the wind before they could get many yards upon it, though Ben and Gilbert refused to give up the attempt, and again and again ventured from the cover of the Long Spinny into the white wilderness stretching before them, but only to be brought back faint and exhausted by the men, who knew the peril better than they did.
De Beauvoir palace walked over the vales and round the spinnies to pay their respects and voice their gratitude.
The tapegrass, she imagined, was like a vast sheet of sterile packaging, preserving the pristine fields and spinnies which slept below.
And Sir Alured rejoiced in the idea that when his ghost should look at the survey map, that hiatus of Barnton Spinnies would not trouble his spectral eyes.
As arrangements were already in progress for the purchase of Barnton Spinnies, Sir Alured could not possibly leave his own house.
They fare as lads with their cur-dogs who have stopped a fox's earth, And standing round the spinny, now chuckle in their mirth, Till one puts by the leafage and trembling stands astare At the sight of the Wood wolf's father arising in his lair - They have come for our wives and our children, and our sword-edge shall they meet.