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Flin·ders n. pl. Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew. --Sir W. Scott.
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Flinders
n 1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
[syn: Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders]
2: a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a
splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders" [syn: splinter,
sliver]