SPINNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinney mean? 

• SPINNEY (noun)
  The noun SPINNEY has 1 sense:

1. a copse that shelters game

  Familiarity information: SPINNEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A copse that shelters game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("spinney" is a kind of...):

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)