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Spinney

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds. UK
"“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. […]”"
2
Synonym of spinnaker.
3
a copse that shelters game wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).

Etymology 2

Clipping of spinnaker + -y.

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