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Spinny   Listen
noun
Spinny  n.  (pl. spinnies)  (Written also spinney, and spinny)  A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. "The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies."



adjective
Spinny  adj.  Thin and long; slim; slender. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Spinny" Quotes from Famous Books



... tent. Enclosed was a circle some twelve feet wide. The floor was bare earth. Once warmed by the pump-up "naptha" lantern and the gasoline hotplate, it would become a bog. Martha went out to the wagon to get a hatchet and set out for the nearby spinny of pines to trim off some twigs. Old Order manner forbid decorative floor-coverings as improper worldly show; but a springy carpet of pine-twigs could be considered as no more than a wooden floor, keeping two Plain Folk from sinking to their ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang



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