Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
plural noun
- splinters; small pieces or fragments.
noun
- Matthew,1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- a river in NE Australia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 520 miles (837 km) long.
pl n
- rare small fragments or splinters (esp in the phrase fly into flinders)
mid-15c., Scottish flendris, probably related to Norwegian flindra “chip, splinter,” or Dutch flenter “fragment;” ultimately from the same PIE root that produced flint.