Found 2 items, similar to shard.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shard shard n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: sherd, fragment]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Shard Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), n. A plant; chard. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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]