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noun
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



... Orange, Whose popularitie you weakely envy, Was still by you commaunded: for when did he Enter the feild but 'twas by your allowaunce? What service undertake which you approv'd not? What victory was won in which you shard not? What action of his renownd in which Your counsaile was forgotten? Yf all this then Suffice not your ambition but you must Extend it further, I am sorry that You give me cause to feare that when you move next You move to ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various
... too hot for Shard, captain of pirates, on all the seas that he knew. The ports of Spain were closed to him; they knew him in San Domingo; men winked in Syracuse when he went by; the two Kings of the Sicilies never ...
— The Book of Wonder • Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
... their attitude of uncomplaining endurance. The stumps above the snow were like floating wreckage on a dreary sea. In all the landscape there was naught that spoke of a spring to come—of warmth and growth; rather did it seem a shard of some disinherited planet under the eternal ...
— Maria Chapdelaine - A Tale of the Lake St. John Country • Louis Hemon
... with the leisurely air of a collector of curios he took up again the four films and the shard bearing the faint trace of figures, and before the astonished eyes of the Superintendent put them into ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... dropped the loose glove from his right hand and turned, reaching toward his hip. Then he saw what had made the noise—a hard-shelled thing a foot in length, with twelve legs, long antennae and two pairs of clawed mandibles. He stopped and picked up a shard of flint, throwing it with an oath. Another ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper


Words linked to "Shard" :   potsherd, piece


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