spinney

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
   UK
3. Synonym of spinnaker.

Examples

““H'm !" he said, "so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see⟳ the curtain fall⟳ for the third time on what […] will prove⟳ a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last⟳ Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park⟳ Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]””

“I've never hunted myself, but I understand⟳ that half the battle is being able to make⟳ noises like⟳ some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe⟳ that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift⟳ fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.”

“Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.”

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