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A spinney is a small patch of trees and bushes — smaller than a wood, much smaller than a forest. Think of a clump of trees standing at the edge of a field, or in the corner of , big enough to walk into and be out of sight, but you could walk through it in a minute or two. The word is strongly British, and rather rural and old-fashioned: you meet it in country writing, on maps and in place names, and in the speech of people who live in the English countryside, more often than in city speech. Americans would say a stand of trees, a copse, or just some trees. The original sense is a thorny thicket, which is why a spinney is often thought of as tangled and full of undergrowth rather than a tidy row of trees.
小樹叢、小灌木林（一小片樹和灌木，比樹林還小；英式用法，多用於鄉間或地圖上）。
組成From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye 'thorny thicket', from Latin spīnētum 'thorny thicket', from Latin spīna 'thorn'. So at root: a place full of thorns.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Spinneyname
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A surname.
spinneynoun詞源 1
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A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
- “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. […]”
- 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.
spinneynoun詞源 2
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Synonym of spinnaker.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。