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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders]
2: bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Etymology: Middle English flendris Date: 15th century splinters, fragments

Merriam Webster's

geographical name river 520 miles (837 kilometers) Australia in central Queensland flowing NW into Gulf of Carpentaria

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flinders Flin"ders, n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.] Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. --Sir W. Scott.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. Splinters, fragments.