Spinneys

Picketed in the open plain or in the partial shelter of the occasional "spinneys," they stood with ears drooping and tails to the wind, pictures of dejection. ❋ Unknown (1921)

The threat of German invasion in 1940 resulted in 28,000 of these little concrete fortresses being placed in strategic locations - hidden in spinneys on the crests of fields, on the bends of rivers and at road junctions. ❋ Peter Ashley (2007)

Many hangars, spinneys, copses and coverts owe their continued existence to local Hunts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And through the charred and desolated area—perhaps twenty square miles altogether—that encircled the Martian encampment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The birds were already chattering in the trees beside my window, all except the nightingale, which had left and flown away to the Weald, where he sings all summer by day as well as by night in the oaks and the hazel spinneys, and especially along the little river Adur, one of the rivers of the Weald. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the months after we moved to Brentwood, before I fled Coopers, I would press my nose against the carriage window as my train rattled in or out of the station, staring at the ploughed fields and spinneys that narrowlybut definitely, satisfyinglyseparated the town from what William Cobbett described as the great wenLondons sprawl. ❋ Richard Madeley (2008)

We had become friends and delighted in each others company on our long walks through Kiln Farms fields and spinneys, or sitting on the banks of the Roden waiting for the fish to rise on summer evenings. ❋ Richard Madeley (2008)

Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The road unwound before them like a reel to a fish, and Royston followed it mile after mile, dodging villages, spinneys, fields, coming closer and closer to Farthing, where Carmichael had no wish to be. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"It is lacking a bit of life compared to town," Royston said as he rounded the curve back into the endless fields and spinneys. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And through the charred and desolated area — perhaps twenty square miles altogether — that encircled the Martian encampment on Horsell Common, through charred and ruined villages among the green trees, through the blackened and smoking arcades that had been but a day ago pine spinneys, crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the gunners of the Martian approach. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Through spinneys and over fields he ran, savoring every smell, alert to the slightest sound. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A smile twisted his lips and eyebrows which resembled spinneys of dark pothooks. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Lord Fontenoy and ‘Old Mont’ — given up his spinneys, had he! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gorse-coverts, hedgerows, and little spinneys would be of no avail unless there were some grandly wild domain in which maternal and paternal foxes could roam in comparative security. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For the next quarter of an hour they flew along, past yellowing spinneys, fields and bits of furzy common dotted with geese and old horses, past village greens and village streets, and all the other evidences of a country life trying to retain its soul. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It led them through several small spinneys of trees into a niche where a good-sized multiple transport pad was sited, and led the first group of Starfleet officers onto it. ❋ Diane Duane With Peter Morwood (2000)

[Tap], [Sirhc], me, and Oilime hate listening to the Spinney [showboat] on and on and on and on.... ❋ Stephanie1992 (2008)

Wow, that spinney felt really made me feel [tingly] inside [the old] [noggin]. ❋ Susan Rice (2017)

Wow, [theres] AFC Spinney, [winning] another game of football and/or [boxing]. Who wudda' knew. ❋ Ruffle (2006)

Hey man! Don't touch that [rolley] [pulley]! What? I [thought it was] called a [Rolley] Spinney thingie! ❋ Stranger0374 (2019)

“I [got] [kicked out] of Cook Spinney, [how lucky] am i!” ❋ JohnLennon69 (2022)

Guy 1: What are you doing for power Guy2: Im gonna get [a Nagasaki] [spinney] boy from [eBay] ❋ LiLONE96 (2020)

I feel really [spinney] [right now] I think I have to [throw up]. ❋ Sidedbog (2023)

[Spinney farm] is [a massive] [house] ❋ _Urban.dictionary_official_ (2021)