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Definition of sherd

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 sherd 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...
- 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...
- The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund. In 2018 a pottery sherd, dated to the 15th century BCE, was found with alphabetic text. This fills...
- 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...
- is known as the Beth-horon sherd, on the basis of a possible reference to the biblical site of Bethoron. The Beth-horon sherd is now at the Israel Museum...
- in southern Israel, discovered an incised ceramic sherd with the serekh sign of Narmer. The sherd was found on a large circular platform, possibly the...
- vessel. In an archaeological or epigraphical context, ostraca refer to sherds or even small pieces of stone that have writing scratched into them. Usually...
- earthenware sherds, 4 celadon sherds, 29 blue and white porcelain sherds, an undefined porcelain sherds, 5 black glazed stoneware sherds, a metal tool...