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Webster 1913 Edition

Flinders

Flin′ders

,

Noun.

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.