spinnett

See spinet2. spinney, spinny? (spin'i), n. [ naie, a thicket, grove, a thorny plot, As he sprent ouer a spenné , to spye the schrewe. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1895. A land covered with fine hedgerow timber, with here and there a nice little gorse or spinney . ... T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 1. spinning (spin'ing), n. [ spin , v.] 1. The act of one who spins.-2. The proce of giving shape to ve els of thin metal by means of a turning-lathe. spinning-frame (spin'ing-frām), n. A machine by which cotton thread was twisted hard and firm, so as to make it suitable for the warp of cotton cloth: the invention of Richard Ark wright. E. H. Knight.