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Definition of Spinneys
1. spinney [n] - See also: spinney
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinneys
Literary usage of Spinneys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions (1878)
"It would appear that when this purchase was made the spinneys or a portion of
them were leased to John Draper—probably a son of Christopher Draper—and that ..."
2. A Diary of the Quorndon Hunt: From the Year 1791 to 1800, Inclusive, in by Thomas Jones, Robert Lowth (1816)
"Met at Oadby Turnpike, tried all the spinneys and Norton Gorse, Gaulby spinneys
... did not find, found in Stanton Wood, went away through Noseley spinneys, ..."
3. An Essay on English Municipal History by JAMES. THOMPSON (1867)
"... nine other inhabitants in the spinneys—in a meadow lying near the same—in the
Orgar Leys—and in certain messuages, cottages, lands, and tenements, ..."
4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1899)
"A fox had moved off from Tuckey before hounds reached it, but Sturman worked out
a line by Winslow to Shipton and Wins- low spinneys, finally marking his ..."
5. York Deeds by Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds (1906)
"... it more or less butted & bounded as followeth Beginning at the Eastern End
next to my Brother Jeremiah spinneys Land & runs by Richard Rogers Land West ..."
6. Fifty Years' Fox-hunting with the Grafton and Other Packs of Hounds by John Malsbury Kirby Elliott, Edward Kirby Elliott (1900)
"Found at Canons Ashby, ran through Plumpton Wood past Blakesley Hall to Seawell
Wood •on to Foxley, past Caswell to Bradden Ponds, through the spinneys, ..."
7. Fifty Years' Fox-hunting with the Grafton and Other Packs of Hounds by John Malsbury Kirby Elliott, Edward Kirby Elliott (1900)
"Found at Canons Ashby, ran through Plumpton Wood past Blakesley Hall to Seawell
Wood on to Foxley, past Caswell to Bradden Ponds, through the spinneys, ..."
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