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spinney

noun as in brush

noun as in grove

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Example Sentences

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.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spinney, such as: scrub, thicket, bracken, brushwood, chaparral, and coppice.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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