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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 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...
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- FC Sherdor (Uzbek: "Sherdor" ****bol klubi / "Шердор" футбол клуби; Russian: Футбольный клуб "Шердор") – is an Uzbekistani football club from the city of...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- regional exchange in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Arabian Sea. Sherds of Ubaid (2500–500 BCE) pottery have been found in the western Gulf at Dilmun...