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
The plains of Salisbury, ideal for summer military camps, are rolling, prairie-like lands stretching for miles, broken by a very occasional farm house or by plantations of trees called "spinneys."
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
The usual accompaniment of the chalk—small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
But you'd never find your way to her cot; it lies out beyond the spinneys.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
