| 释义 |
spinney|ˈspɪnɪ|
Forms: α. 4 spenné, 6 spinnie, 7 spennie, 8– spinny. β. 7 spynney, 7– spinney, 9 spenney.
[ad. OF. espinei, espinoi, -oy masc., espinoie, espinaye (mod.F. épinaie) fem., a place full of thorns or brambles, f. espine spine n.1 Cf. spinet2.]
†1. ? A thorn-hedge. Obs. rare.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1709 At þe last bi a littel dich he lepez ouer a spenné, Stelez out ful stilly bi a strothe rande. Ibid. 1896 As he sprent ouer a spenné, to spye þe schrewe.
2. A small wood or copse, esp. one planted or preserved for sheltering game-birds; a small clump or plantation of trees.
α1597Gerarde Herbal ci. 353, I found this strange kinde of Gentian in a small groue of wood called the Spinnie. c1600in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 114 For Hantorne's Spennie, xii d. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husb. IV. iv. 18 When a Field is under such a fertile growth of this Grain, it appears somewhat like a Spinny, or Spring of Underwood. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 331 The carriage not being able to get up to the spinny. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. p. x, The downs..crowned with black fir spinnies, and dotted with dark box and juniper. 1876Fraser's Mag. 470 Woods and spinnies of old trees are scattered about the rich corn-lands.
β1625Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. lx, To Butlin 5 daies paling about the new spinney. Ibid., One daie setting up stiles in the spynney. 1785Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 177, I told you..that the spinney has been cut down. 1814Ann. Reg., Chron. 84/2 A small wood called Holyoak Spenney. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Accident iv, Had her horse but been fed upon English grass And sheltered in Yorkshire spinneys. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 43 The fox..had turned into the little spinneys bordering the hill.
attrib.1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 133 Ragged-robins by the spinney lake.
transf.1905Sir F. Treves Other Side Lant. i. i, A spinney of cranes and derricks. |