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flinders
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flinders has 2 senses
- flinders(n = noun.person) matthew flinders, sir matthew flinders - British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814); Array is a kind of adventurer, explorer
- flinders(n = noun.group) Array - bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage" is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
CIDE DICTIONARY
flinders, n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.].
Small pieces or splinters; fragments. [1913 Webster]
"The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew." [1913 Webster]
Into a thousand flinders flew." [1913 Webster]
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