sherd
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Sherd \Sherd\, n. A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. [1913 Webster]
The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] Shereef
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. [1913 Webster]
The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board.— E. Arnold.[1913 Webster]
2.(Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle. [1913 Webster]
They are his shards, and he their beetle.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
3.A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst. [1913 Webster]
4.A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]