"spinney" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spenne",
        "4": "spenné"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spenné",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "espinoye",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorny thicket"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spīnētum",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorny thicket"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spīna",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorn"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spīna (“thorn”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinney (plural spinneys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English links with redundant target parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant target parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
          "text": "“H'm !\" he said, \"so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 16:",
          "text": "Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds."
      ],
      "id": "en-spinney-en-noun-VazjizAg",
      "links": [
        [
          "copse",
          "copse"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "shelter",
          "shelter"
        ],
        [
          "game bird",
          "game bird"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "thicket"
        },
        {
          "word": "copse"
        },
        {
          "word": "grove"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spinny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinney"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinney (plural spinneys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "spinnaker"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of spinnaker."
      ],
      "id": "en-spinney-en-noun-YI2fglU~",
      "links": [
        [
          "spinnaker",
          "spinnaker#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spinny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinney"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "Middle English links with redundant target parameters",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spenne",
        "4": "spenné"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spenné",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "espinoye",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorny thicket"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spīnētum",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorny thicket"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spīna",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thorn"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spīna (“thorn”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinney (plural spinneys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "thicket"
    },
    {
      "word": "copse"
    },
    {
      "word": "grove"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
          "text": "“H'm !\" he said, \"so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 16:",
          "text": "Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "copse",
          "copse"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "shelter",
          "shelter"
        ],
        [
          "game bird",
          "game bird"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spinny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinney"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Shortening",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinney (plural spinneys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "spinnaker"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of spinnaker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spinnaker",
          "spinnaker#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spinny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinney"
}