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spinney

/spin-ee/US // ˈspɪn i //UK // (ˈspɪnɪ) //

纺纱厂,纺纱,纺车,纺锤体

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural spin·neys.British.

    • : a small wood or thicket.

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Examples

  • Do you remember long ago at the gate over there leading to Drake's Spinney?

  • On the one side the hedge was high, but on the other there was a slight gap leading into a thick spinney.

  • "Spinney is not such a bad fellow at bottom," I replied, albeit touched by the warm partisanship of my wife.

  • I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts.

  • Pickersdyke halted his little command behind the remains of a spinney and went forward to reconnoitre.