单词 | to dash, break, or tear into flitters |
释义 | > as lemmasto dash, break, or tear into (or to) flitters. With plural agreement. Fragments, torn pieces; splinters, tatters. Chiefly in phrases, as to dash, break, or tear into (or to) flitters. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments fardel1508 flinders1508 fitters1532 brockle1552 shells1578 frush1582 flitters1620 shattersa1640 spillikin1857 1620 R. Waller in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. II. 247 They two are torne all to flitters. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 90 They..broak the ship to flitters. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §123 97 Dashed into Flitters at a Stroke. 1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 382 Flesh..that was hanging in dark flitters about the spine. < as lemmas |
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