flinders

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Shreds; splinters; broken pieces.--Brockett. Used also in New England.


Smate with sic fard, the airis in flendris lap.--Douglas, Virgil.

The tough ash spear, so stout and true,

Into a thousand flinders flew.--Lay of the Last Minstrel, ch. 3, 6.

Sure enough, when the General came to take off his boots, there was his best gold-rim specs, all broke to flinders.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 125.

Old Harley skeered the horse, upset the cart, and like to mashed every thing all to flinders.--Chronicle of Pineville, p. 122.

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