SPINNY

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. [Written also spinney, and spinny.] The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley.

2.
a.

Thin and long; slim; slender. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


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