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Flinders

//ˈflɪndəz// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A local government area in northern Queensland, Australia, name after the river; in full, the Shire of Flinders.
  3. 3
    A long river in northern Queensland, which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria; in full, the Flinders River.
  4. 4
    A town in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
Noun
  1. 1
    fragments, splinters plural, plural-only

    "The heat brought sweat and the sweat blinded. Black flinders gyrated in the fiery air like bats."

  2. 2
    plural of flinder form-of, plural
  3. 3
    bits and splinters and fragments wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of flinder form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; see flinder.

Etymology 2

See flinder.

Etymology 3

See flinder.

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