noun
- a small wood or thicket
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- The children played hide-and-seek in the spinney behind the farmhouse.
- A narrow path led through the spinney to the meadow beyond.
- The old spinney provided shelter for rabbits and other small animals.
- We picked blackberries along the edge of the spinney.
- The spinney was filled with birch and hazel trees.
- Local wildlife found refuge in the dense spinney during winter.