Definition of "spinney" [spin•ney]

• Chiefly British A small grove; a copse. (noun)

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• "The spinney was a mixture of beech, ash, sycamore and elm, more recent planting than the woodland they'd been in the previous night."
• "I was here alone in a lonely field, at nine of the clock on a winter night, and there, flittering and gliding through the spinney was a something in white."
• "We blew the road and retreated and things went a little quieter, the Northumberland Hussars covered us while we retreated and as we had not slept for 3days and nights, we pulled into a little spinney and had some food, a wash, and slept."