spinney

Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I grew angry; I coughed, laughed, whistled; and from afar off, from the distant lees, and streams, and spinneys, came a repetition of the noises.

From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

Picketed in the open plain or in the partial shelter of the occasional "spinneys," they stood with ears drooping and tails to the wind, pictures of dejection.

From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith

Or again, I watch Buntings and Finches deserting the flock and seeking stations in the marsh, or amongst the furze-bushes on the common, or in the spinneys.

From Territory in Bird Life by H. Eliot Howard

They had all started across the moor toward the black patch of spinneys around which Sir Geoffrey should have come.

From The New Tenant by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim