Spinney

Word SPINNEY
Character 7
Hyphenation spin ney
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Spinney"

What do we mean by spinney?

A small grove; a copse. noun

A small wood with undergrowth; a clump of trees or shrubs; a small grove or shrubbery. noun

Same as spinny. noun

A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds. noun

A copse that shelters game noun

A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.

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The word "spinney" in example sentences

The spinney was a mixture of beech, ash, sycamore and elm, more recent planting than the woodland they'd been in the previous night. ❋ McDermid, Val (1999)

I was here alone in a lonely field, at nine of the clock on a winter night, and there, flittering and gliding through the spinney was a something in white. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)

The samples of his verse that Mr. Hollinghurst invents are perfectly pitched to be good but not great: "The spinney where the lisping larches / Kiss overhead in silver arches / And in their shadows lovers too / Might kiss and tell their secrets through," is a typical jingling passage. ❋ Adam Kirsch (2011)

We blew the road and retreated and things went a little quieter, the Northumberland Hussars covered us while we retreated and as we had not slept for 3days and nights, we pulled into a little spinney and had some food, a wash, and slept. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Procurement struggles are like knife fights in a dark alley: no time to show weakness. recommendation to obama: put chuck spinney in charge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Like when you trip over an old plough left in a spinney between fields, and when you've finished having a good swear you discover the maker's name embossed on a crossbar shouting back at you, albeit somewhat rustily. ❋ Peter Ashley (2007)

I think I'm going to go enjoy the last of this spinney feeling and hope to God someone else is reading this and can help me. ❋ Shadowfeet (2009)

That spinney head, Spader thought as he and Per both raced toward the bow of the vessel. ❋ D. J. MacHale (2009)

By the time they got the pipe back together, Spader noticed that the deck wasnt bucking like a crazed spinney fish anymore. ❋ D. J. MacHale (2009)

So it is that this old mother tree with an apronful of children is forever growing down to the lawns and propagating young, so that when she eventually dies they will already have grown up and become a spinney. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Then its time I showed ya, spinney fish, came a gravelly mans voice I didnt recognize. ❋ D. J. MacHale (2009)

Ai bees followeded des direcshuns n nao all spinney in mai hed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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