Flinders : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Flinders	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Flinders n British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) Synonym(s): Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.