spinney
a small wood or thicket.
Origin of spinney
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How to use spinney in a sentence
Cultivated fields there were few, tracts of furze--spinneys, as men then called small patches of wood--in plenty.
The House of Walderne | A. D. CrakeIt is a bare fold of land with one or two little scrubby spinneys alongside the plough.
First and Last | H. BellocI saw your dark bay mare being taken home at Colbourne Spinneys, and I don't think she'll be fit to ride again this season.
A Monk of Cruta | E. Phillips OppenheimThere were no formal spinneys, nor wide stretches of old timber, such as we nowadays expect to see in a forest.
Social Life in England Through the Centuries | H. R. Wilton HallOn this particular morning near the end of April, an unclouded sun lit up the verdant cornlands and larch spinneys.
The Gypsy's Parson | George Hall
British Dictionary definitions for spinney
/ (ˈspɪnɪ) /
mainly British a small wood or copse
Origin of spinney
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