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linney

linney is the alternative form of linhay.

Meaning of linhay

Noun

linhay (plural linhays)

  1. (dialectal, south-west UK) A shed or other outbuilding, originally open-fronted with a hay loft.
    • Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, section III

Proper noun capitalized: Linney

Linney (plural Linneys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of linney

Noun
plurallinneys
Proper noun
pluralLinneys

Questions about linney

What does linney mean?
Linney means a surname.
What is linney the alternative form of?
Linney is the alternative form of linhay.
What part of speech is linney?
Linney is a proper noun.

Words near linney in the dictionary

  1. linnet
  2. linnet hole
  3. linnet holes
  4. linnets
  5. Linneus
  6. linney
  7. linneys
  8. Linngithigh
  9. Linnie
  10. linnies
  11. linning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linney (page history and authors); Linney (page history and authors); linhay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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