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View synonyms for spinney
spinney
[ spin-ee ]
noun
, British.
, plural spin·neys.
- a small wood or thicket.
spinney
/ ˈspɪnɪ /
noun
- a small wood or copse
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spinney1
C16: from Old French espinei, from espine thorn, from Latin spīna
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Example Sentences
Do you remember long ago at the gate over there leading to Drake's Spinney?
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On the one side the hedge was high, but on the other there was a slight gap leading into a thick spinney.
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"Spinney is not such a bad fellow at bottom," I replied, albeit touched by the warm partisanship of my wife.
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I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts.
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Pickersdyke halted his little command behind the remains of a spinney and went forward to reconnoitre.
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