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Webster 1913 Edition

(spĭn′ny̆)

Noun.

;

pl.

Spinneys

(spĭn′nĭz)

Same as

T. Hughes.

spinney ‎(plural spinneys)

(Britain) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery:
  “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. […]”
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
  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.

spinney m ‎(genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])