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Spinney   /spˈɪni/   Listen
Spinney

noun
(pl. spinneys)
1.
A copse that shelters game.





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"Spinney" Quotes from Famous Books



... road, where the branches of the trees almost met overhead, and there was a pool of stagnant, slimy water, suggestive of great depth. On the one side the hedge was high, but on the other there was a slight gap leading into a thick spinney. Miss Lefanu never visited the spot alone after dusk, and had been warned against it even in the daytime. As she drew near to it, everything that she had ever heard about it flashed across her mind, and she was more than once on ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... on Monday, July 16th, the prisoner had entered the chemist's shop in the village, disguised as Mr. Inglethorp. The prisoner, on the contrary, was at that time at a lonely spot called Marston's Spinney, where he had been summoned by an anonymous note, couched in blackmailing terms, and threatening to reveal certain matters to his wife unless he complied with its demands. The prisoner had, accordingly, gone to ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie


Words linked to "Spinney" :   brush, UK, U.K., Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, coppice, brushwood, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, copse, thicket


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