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Definitions for flinders
ˈflɪn dərzflinders
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Princeton's WordNet
Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flindersnoun
British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
flindersnoun
bits and splinters and fragments
"it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
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flinders
Flinders refer to small fragments, splinters, or chips of something, especially metal or rock.
Webster Dictionary
Flinders
small pieces or splinters; fragments
Etymology: [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.]
Wikidata
Flinders
Flinders is a historic town south of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located on the Mornington Peninsula at the point where Western Port meets Bass Strait. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. At the 2011 census, Flinders had a population of 860.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
flinders
An old word for splinters; thus Walter Scott's Borderer-- "The tough ash-spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew."
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FLINDERS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Flinders is ranked #43369 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Flinders surname appeared 498 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Flinders.
98.1% or 489 total occurrences were White.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flinders in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flinders in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of flinders in a Sentence
Given the number of human remains at St. James, we weren't confident that we were going to find him, we were very lucky that Captain Flinders had a breastplate made of lead meaning it would not have corroded. We'll now be able to study his skeleton to see whether life at sea left its mark and what more we can learn about him.
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