spinney

It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Gorse-coverts, hedge-rows, and little spinneys would be of no avail unless there were some grandly wild domain in which maternal and paternal foxes could roam in comparative security.

From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

The usual accompaniment of the chalk—small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes

Picketed in the open plain or in the partial shelter of the occasional "spinneys," they stood with ears drooping and tails to the wind, pictures of dejection.

From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith

To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos