Definitions for flinders

flinders flin·ders

Spelling: [flin-derz]
IPA: /ˈflɪn dərz/

Flinders is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in flinders (defilnrs).

Definitions for flinders

noun

  1. Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  2. a river in NE Australia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 520 miles (837 km) long.

plural noun

  1. splinters; small pieces or fragments.

Origin of flinders

1400-50; late Middle English flendris, perhaps Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flindra splinter; perhaps akin to flint

Examples for flinders

Tasman's account of the natives—Cook's—Labillardière's—flinders'.

“B–b–but, sor,” said flinders, with a perplexed and pitiful air.

He jerks out his pipe an' breaks it in flinders ober my head.

And have you had no tussle with your conscience, flinders, about this business?

When they met at flinders', communication was difficult, yet their songs were the same.

This seemed to satisfy the man, who at once went away, leaving flinders on guard.

Anyhow my doom is fixed, and poor flinders with his friends will lose their money.

Chips and flinders had been knocked by the same forces from the boulders and the rocks.

"I wish it had stove his old machine all to flinders and him with it," he said to me, revengefully.

“That makes siven hundred, sor,” said flinders, suggestively.

Word Value for flinders
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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