Spinney may refer to:
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copse
Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, which is called a copse, young tree stems are repeate ...
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thicket
A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large numbers of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in t ...
People
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Art Spinney
Arthur F. Spinney, Jr. (1927–1994) was an American gridiron football guard. He played nine seasons with the Baltimore Colts in the National Football League (NFL) and was captain of the 1949 Eagles' football team. Spinney attended Boston College ...
(1927–1994), American football guard
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Caroll Spinney
Caroll Edwin Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019) was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author, artist and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on ''Sesame Street'' from its inception in 1969 until 2018.
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(1933–2019), American puppeteer and cartoonist
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Edgar Keith Spinney
Edgar Keith Spinney, (January 26, 1851 – May 13, 1926) was a Canadian politician.
Early life
Born in Argyle, Nova Scotia, he was an insurance agent and merchant.
Political career
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the ...
, (1851–1926), Canadian politician
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Franklin C. Spinney
Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney (born May 2, 1945) is an American former military analyst for the Pentagon who became famous in the early 1980s for what became known as the "Spinney Report", criticizing what he described as the reckless pursuit of c ...
(born 1945), American military analyst, author of the "Spinney Report"
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George Wilbur Spinney (1889–1948), president of Bank of Montreal
Places
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Spinney (Kettering BC Ward), an electoral ward in Northamptonshire, England
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Spinney Abbey, a former monastery in Cambridgeshire, England
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Spinney Hill, an area of Northampton, England
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Spinney Hills
Spinney Hills is an inner city area of Leicester, England. It is situated to the north of the core Highfields area, around Spinney Hill Park. To the north is Northfields, to the east North Evington, to the west is the railway line, and ...
, an area of Leicester, England
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Spinney Hills, East Quogue, a leisure area in New York state
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Spinney Mountain State Park, a state park in Colorado
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The Spinney Local Nature Reserve, a reserve in Carshalton, London
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Round Spinney, a locality in Northampton, England
Other uses
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Spinneys
Spinneys is an Arabian multinational supermarket chain active in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt,
Qatar, Lebanon, Oman and Pakistan. It began as a railway provision merchant company, and expanded to a grocery firm importing British Empire goods t ...
, a supermarket chain
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Empire Spinney'', a ship built in 1941
See also
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Spiny (disambiguation)
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