sherd
瓷器的碎片;碎片;翅鞘;外殼
Shard n. [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.
The precious dish
Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E. Arnold.
2. Zool. The hard wing case of a beetle.
They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.
3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.]
4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.]
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Sherd n. A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.
The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. --Chapman.
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sherd
n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, fragment]