Definition of Sherds. Meaning of Sherds. Synonyms of Sherds

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Sherds. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Sherds and, of course, Sherds synonyms and on the right images related to the word Sherds.

Definition of Sherds

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

Meaning of Sherds from wikipedia

- particular past human society. diagnostic A term used for objects, particularly sherds of pottery, which can be dated to a particular chronological period, and...
- The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, discovered in...
- The Abda sherd graffito is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 8 and TSSI III 10) on a two small connecting fragment of a large vase, dating to c. 900 BC. It...
- José’s Sherds as an “easy read and a guaranteed page-turner”. A novel composed of twelve chapters with a "tight and palpable" narrative pacing, Sherds deals...
- The McClelland sherd, Tell Jisr sherd or El-Jisr sherd is a fragment of pottery discovered by McClelland at Tell Jisr, near Rashaya in Lebanon and first...
- known as the Brussels texts. The first collection are inscribed on pottery sherds, and contain the names of approximately 20 places in Canaan and Phoenicia...
- exercises, and notes. Pottery sherds, limestone flakes, and thin fragments of other stone types were used, but limestone sherds, being flaky and of a lighter...
- Look up shard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shard or sherd is a sharp piece of gl****, pottery or stone. Shard may also refer to: Shard End, a place...
- Nymphe in Road Town Harbor on Tortuga in the British West Indies produced sherds of two earthenware vessels with dendritic markings on slip marbled surfaces...
- potter sherds were found on the site, most of which were very small. No sherds were found in the oldest excavation layers. About half of the sherds (51 percent)...