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noun

Shard n. (Written also sheard, and sherd)

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."

(Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle."

A gap in a fence. (Obs.)

A boundary; a division. (Obs. & R.)

Sherd n. A fragment; now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. "The thigh... which all in sherds it drove."

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Etymology of 'Sherd'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sherd" Quotes from Famous Books

... deserved the fate; deny 't who can? Yes, but the fate did not deserve the man; Not for the like of him and his slave-brands Did Athens put the sherd into our hands." ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... knives by the Egyptian embalmers. Stone knives were supposed to produce less inflammation than those of bronze or iron, and it was for this reason that the Cybelian priests operated upon themselves with a sherd of Samian ware (Samia testa), as thus avoiding danger. There seems, on the whole, to be a fair case for believing that among the Israelites, as in Arabia, Ethiopia, and Egypt, a ceremonial use of stone instruments long survived the general ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino