| 单词 |
flinders |
| 释义 |
flinders1, n. pl. rarely sing.|ˈflɪndəz|
Forms: 5–6 Sc. flend(e)ris, -ers, 9 Sc. (sing. and pl.) flinner(s, 8– flinders.
[cf. mod.Norw. flindra thin chip or splinter, Du. flenter fragment.]
a. Fragments, pieces, splinters. Chiefly in phrases, as to break or fly in(to flinders. Cf. flitters.
c1450Golagros & Gaw. 915 Thair speris in the feild in flendris gart ga. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. ix, The bow in flenders flew. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in Chambers Pop. Poems Scotl. (1862) 32 He'll their doors to flinders toss. 1808J. Mayne Siller Gun ii. 129 At length she [his gun] bounced out-ower a tree, In mony a flinner. 1840Browning Sordello vi. 437 Flinders enrich the strand, and veins the rock. 1847Kingsley Poems, New Forest Ballad 30 The metal good and the walnut wood Did soon in flinders flee. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 86 And the Osservanza is broken And the best de la Robbia busted to flinders. 1971W. Burroughs Speed 42 About noon the transmission went all to flinders.
fig.1786Burns On a Scotch Bard v, 'Twill mak her poor auld heart..In flinders flee. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. iii. 27 Parson Cushing could knock that air [discourse] all to flinders.
b. transf. Pieces, scraps.
1869Greenwood Seven Curses ii. 19 Her draggletail flinders of lace and ribbon. |
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