(in fig. sense). Fragments.

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1786.  

        ’Twill make her poor auld heart, I fear,
                In flinders flee.
Burns, ‘On a Scotch Bard.’ (N.E.D.)    

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1848.  [He] had riddled to flinders their young locofoco representative.—Mr. McLane of Maryland, House of Repr., March 1: Cong. Globe, p. 409.

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1878.  Parson Cushing could knock that air [discourse] all to flinders.—H. B. Stowe, ‘Poganuc People,’ ch. iii. (N.E.D.)

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