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| 3 results for sherd | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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[edh]. 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[94]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]: | |
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Sherd \Sherd\, n. A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See {Shard}. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. --Chapman. | |
