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Definition of Flinders
1. Noun. British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814).
2. Noun. Bits and splinters and fragments. "It would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Definition of Flinders
1. n. pl. Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Definition of Flinders
1. Noun. fragments, splinters ¹
2. Noun. (plural of flinder) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flinders
1. flinder [n] - See also: flinder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flinders
Literary usage of Flinders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"On his return to England in 1793 Commodore Pasley was again commissioning the
Bellerophon, and again took flinders with him. On returning to Portsmouth ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"flinders (in fig. sense). Fragments. 1786 'Twill make her poor auld heart. ...
1878 Parson Cushing could knock that air [discourse] all to flinders.—UTS. ..."
3. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"MATTHEW flinders. MATTHEW flinders was born, March 16, 1774, at Donington, England.
He studied in the high school, from his twelfth to his fifteenth year, ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"By Matthew flinders, Esq. Commander of His Majesty's Ship Investigator. ...
flinders, on board the Investigator, was surveying the south coast of New ..."
5. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"ATTER consultation with Governor King, flinders determined to go to England as
a passenger by the " Porpoise," under command of Lieutenant Fowler, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"flinders, MATTHEW (1774-1814), English navigator, explorer, and man of science,
was born at Donington, near Boston, in Lincolnshire, on the loth of March ..."
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