spinney
IPA: spˈɪni
noun
- (UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
- A surname.
- Clipping of spinnaker. [(nautical) A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.]
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Examples of "spinney" in Sentences
- The spinney is on the corner of two roads.
- Spinney also has three children from a previous marriage.
- The quote attributed to Caroll Spinney isn't present in the book.
- Spinney spent the rest of his career refining and expanding this analysis.
- The Spinney Hill Park area is divided into a number of neighbourhood beats.
- I notice from the info box that Spinney was apparently born at the age of 74.
- Then its time I showed ya, spinney fish, came a gravelly mans voice I didnt recognize.
- That spinney head, Spader thought as he and Per both raced toward the bow of the vessel.
- By the time they got the pipe back together, Spader noticed that the deck wasnt bucking like a crazed spinney fish anymore.
- The spinney was a mixture of beech, ash, sycamore and elm, more recent planting than the woodland they'd been in the previous night.
- Procurement struggles are like knife fights in a dark alley: no time to show weakness. recommendation to obama: put chuck spinney in charge.
- Spinney also argues that the increasingly complex weapons under consideration are too expensive to be purchased and maintained in adequate numbers.
- 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.
- Like when you trip over an old plough left in a spinney between fields, and when you've finished having a good swear you discover the maker's name embossed on a crossbar shouting back at you, albeit somewhat rustily.
- 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.
- The samples of his verse that Mr. Hollinghurst invents are perfectly pitched to be good but not great: "The spinney where the lisping larches / Kiss overhead in silver arches / And in their shadows lovers too / Might kiss and tell their secrets through," is a typical jingling passage.