Word of the day: flinders

The word of the day is flinders:

1. splinters; small pieces or fragments.

mid-15c., Scottish flendris, probably related to Norw. flindra "chip, splinter," or Du. flenter "fragment," ult. from the same PIE root that produced flint (q.v.).

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flinder)

"Soon after 1000 A.D. Tiwanaku split into flinders that would not be united for another four centuries, when the Inka swept them up."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus