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Spinney   /spˈɪni/   Listen
Spinney

noun
(pl. spinneys)
1.
A copse that shelters game.





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"Spinney" Quotes from Famous Books



... sunset, but there are occasions when I have dallied longer than I have intended, and only realised my error when it has been too late. I have then, controlled by the irresistible fascination of the woods, waited and watched. I well recollect, for example, being caught in this way in a Hampshire spinney, at that time one of my most frequented haunts. The day had been unusually close and stifling, and the heat, in conjunction with a hard morning's work—for I had written, God only knows how long, without ceasing,—made me frightfully ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell


Words linked to "Spinney" :   brush, Britain, United Kingdom, Great Britain, brushwood, copse, coppice, thicket, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., UK


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