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Copse vs Spinner - What's the difference?

copse | spinner |

As nouns the difference between copse and spinner

is that copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs while spinner is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.

As a verb copse

is (horticulture) to trim or cut.

copse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
  • * 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
  • The day is come when I again repose
    Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
    These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
    Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
    Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
    ’Mid groves and copses .
  • * 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
  • Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

    Synonyms

    * coppice

    See also

    * bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard * stand, thicket, wood, woods

    Verb

    (cops)
  • (horticulture) To trim or cut.
  • (horticulture) To plant and preserve.
  • Anagrams

    * copes, scope

    spinner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
  • A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
  • (obsolete) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
  • (slang, cinema) Used primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
  • (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
  • (cricket) A spin bowler.
  • (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
  • An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
  • A goatsucker.
  • A spinneret.
  • A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
  • Derived terms

    * ring spinner

    Anagrams

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