- Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders - British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
--1 is a kind of explorer, adventurer
- splinter, sliver, flinders - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders"
--2 is a kind of bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap