flinders

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   small broken pieces, splinters, or fragments, especially after something has been smashed

   They were relieved to learn that the raft had not been smashed to flinders.

The plural of flinder, a fragment or splinter. The word is probably of Scandinavian or other North Germanic origin and now survives chiefly in the plural phrase to flinders, meaning 'into small pieces.'

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