Flinders

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• flinders

  Shreds; splinters; broken pieces.--Brockett. Used also in New England. Smate with sic fard, the air...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flinders

  An old word for splinters; thus Walter Scott's Borderer "The tough ash-spear, so stout and true, ...

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