spinney
nounUK /ˈspɪni/
US /ˈspɪni/
A spinney is a small group of trees growing close together.
The children played hide-and-seek in the little spinney behind the farm.
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2. A small wood or thicket used as a shelter for game birds.
The keeper planted a spinney of hazel to shelter the pheasants.
3. A dense patch of shrubs or small trees on a hillside.
A spinney of hawthorn clung to the slope above the stream.
4. A place of tangled branches and brambles that is hard to walk through.
We lost the path and ended up pushing through a prickly spinney.