Found 3 items, similar to sherd.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: sherd
pecahan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sherd
sherd
n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn:
shard,
fragment]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: sherd
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.
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The precious dish
Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E.
Arnold.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
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They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.
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3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst.
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4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser.
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