noun
- a small, thin piece or splinter, especially of wood or stone
Usage: often used in plural form 'flinders'; chiefly British and Australian English
Examples
- The old wooden door splintered into flinders when it was kicked down.
- She picked flinders of glass off the floor after the vase broke.
- The explosion reduced the building to flinders.
- A flinder of stone lodged in his shoe during the hike.