spinney
noun
a small wood or thicket.
spinneys
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pluralof spinney.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Our path wound around several freshly-planted spinneys and then led through a plantation of pine-trees.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
In the distance, a low range of hills, irregularly wooded; then a river; then woods and spinneys; then vineyards—boundless vineyards which climbed in varying slopes out of the valley almost to our feet.
From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Arnold Bennett
For my own part, it is in the autumn that I like Hopton best, when the old cock pheasants call defiance to each other in the spinneys, and the hedgerows rustle with life.
From Dross by Henry Seton Merriman
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.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
