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flinders
/ˈflɪndəz/
plural noun
Small fragments or splinters.
Origin
Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flindra ‘chip, splinter’.
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The lightning blasted the tree's trunk to flinders.

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