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  flinders

  plural noun

  splinters; small pieces or fragments.
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  Flinders

  noun

  Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.

flinders

¹ American  

[flin-derz] / ˈflɪn dərz /

plural noun

1. splinters; small pieces or fragments.

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Flinders ² American  

[flin-derz] / ˈflɪn dərz /

noun

1. Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.

2. a river in NE Australia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 520 miles (837 km) long.

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flinders British  

/ ˈflɪndəz /

plural noun

1. rare small fragments or splinters (esp in the phrase fly into flinders )

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Etymology

Origin of flinders

1400–50; late Middle English flendris, perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flindra splinter; perhaps akin to flint

Example Sentences

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He’s been at it since “Independence Day” in 1996 when aliens blasted the White House to flinders.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

A stack of old Washington Post stories on the District’s street nomenclature had been reduced to flinders.

From Washington Post

Now, with their summer homes smashed to flinders, with even their beach, real estate so devastated that many an owner thought of letting it go in default of taxes, this opposition was silenced.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tiwanaku split into flinders that would not be united for another four centuries, when the Inka swept them up.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Lead author Associate Professor Trevor Worthy of Flinders University says the fossils reveal a bird community unlike anything seen in New Zealand today.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

The study involved paleontologists from Flinders University and Canterbury Museum, as well as volcanologists Joel Baker of the University of Auckland and Simon Barker of Victoria University of Wellington.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

The project also involved scientists from Flinders University and the University of Wollongong.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

Lead author Corey Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology at Flinders University, says the findings reveal a clear sign that humanity is operating beyond the planet's natural limits.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

Redcliffe, so named a quarter of a century before by Flinders, but now generally known as “Humpy Bong,” was the original site selected for the first settlement on the shores of Moreton Bay.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward