spinney

[ UK /spˈɪni/ ]
[ US /ˈspɪni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a copse that shelters game
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How To Use spinney In A Sentence

  • A site was chosen near the college focus overlooking a south-facing meadow that slopes down to a spinney, and three new three-storey blocks have been created at the top of the rise.
  • My mum and dad sold the old farmhouse to a young, retired businessman from the South, and built a new home in the old spinney.
  • At a twist in the river lay the spinney, a clump of birch saplings sprouting through a thicket of bramble.
  • The rooks were creating bedlam in the spinney but on the distant wind he could hear the wail of a siren. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • The usual accompaniment of the chalk -- small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
  • Watching Tandy is going to need someone who knows every rock, wall and spinney - just in case he gets lost. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • And think of the features that make our landscape so gorgeously English: the hedgerows, drystone walls and the shady copses and spinneys punctuating the expanses of green.
  • I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple. Wildwood
  • At daybreak they lay up together in a place she showed him deep within a spinney.
  • The club has spent wisely on the course recently in reshaping the fairways, re-designing bunkers and spinneys and treating the fairways and greens.
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