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sherd |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shard \Shard\, n. [AS. sceard, properly a p. p. from the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. schaard a fragment, G. scharte a notch, Icel. skar[eth]. See {Shear}, and cf {Sherd}.] [Written also {sheard}, and {sherd}.] 1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. --Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E. Arnold. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak. 3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst. 4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sherd \Sherd\, n. A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See {Shard}. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. --Chapman. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sherd n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: {shard}, {fragment}]
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