Sherd

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sherd \Sherd\, n.
     A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd.
     See {Shard}.
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           The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.


                                                    --Chapman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), 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.
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              The precious dish
              Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E.
                                                    Arnold.
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     2. (Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
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              They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.
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     3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst.
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     4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sherd
       n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: {shard}, {fragment}]