flinders Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
    Matthew Flinders; Sir Matthew Flinders.
  2. noun bits and splinters and fragments
    • it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage

WordNet

Flin"ders noun plural
Etymology
Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.
Definitions
  1. Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
    The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913