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Shard   /ʃɑrd/   Listen
noun
Shard  n.  A plant; chard. (Obs.)


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."
2.
(Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle."
3.
A gap in a fence. (Obs.)
4.
A boundary; a division. (Obs. & R.)





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"Shard" Quotes from Famous Books



... written in the first Book of Wonder how Captain Shard of the bad ship Desperate Lark, having looted the sea-coast city Bombasharna, retired from active life; and resigning piracy to younger men, with the good will of the North and South Atlantic, settled down with a captured ...
— Tales of Wonder • Lord Dunsany
... scrap, swatch, clout, chunk, slice, clipping, chip, hunk, hunch, fragment, fillet, shard; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... muse, "in the world's regard, Vast it looms there still, vast it ever will be;" And he stoops as to dig and unmine some shard Left by those who are ...
— Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with - Miscellaneous Pieces • Thomas Hardy
... slouched farther back in his seat. He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper ...
— The Stutterer • R.R. Merliss
... musket was rusted, and the stock was actually overgrown with small funguses. It was a peculiarity of this man that everything he carried was more or less broken and outworn. The barrel of his piece was riven, his tomahawk was a mere shard of rusted steel, on many of his accoutrements the vapour of fire had passed. He approached me with a stately bearing, and, after saluting me in the fashion of his people, gave me to know that he welcomed me to the land of spirits, and ...
— In the Wrong Paradise • Andrew Lang


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