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Flinders

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Flin·ders  (flndrz), Sir Matthew 1774-1814.
British explorer who sailed to New South Wales (1795) and subsequently made a thorough study of the Australian coast.
flin·ders  (flndrz)
pl.n.
Bits, fragments, or splinters.
[Middle English flendris, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian flindra, splinter.]
flinders [ˈflɪndəz]
pl n
Rare small fragments or splinters (esp in the phrase fly into flinders)
[probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian flindra thin piece of stone]
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Noun1.FlindersFlinders - British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders
2.Flindersflinders - bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole


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Bertie did not see the bottle go off; but the mate opportunely discharging a stick of real dynamite aft where it would harm nobody, Bertie would have sworn in any admiralty court to a nigger blown to flinders.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
Even in June there were leaders, letters, large headlines, leaded type; the Daily Chronicle devoting half its literary page to a charming drawing of the island capital which the new Pall Mall, in a leading article headed by a pun, advised the Government to blow to flinders.
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