'Shard' definitions:
Definition of 'shard'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Shard'
From: GCIDE
- Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), n. A plant; chard. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Shard'
From: GCIDE
- 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. (Zool.) 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]
Synonyms of 'shard'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- atomize,
- beat,
- bit,
- bones,
- bray,
- break,
- brecciate,
- butt,
- chaff,
- chip,
- chunk,
- clip,
- clipping,
- collop,
- comminute,
- contriturate,
- crumb,
- crumble,
- crush,
- culm,
- cut,
- cutting,
- deadwood,
- dishwater,
- disintegrate,
- dollop,
- draff,
- dregs,
- dust,
- end,
- fall to pieces,
- filings,
- flour,
- fragment,
- garbage,
- gash,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granulate,
- granulize,
- grate,
- grind,
- grind to powder,
- hogwash,
- hunk,
- husks,
- leavings,
- lees,
- levigate,
- lump,
- mash,
- mill,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- morsel,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- orts,
- paring,
- parings,
- particle,
- pestle,
- piece,
- potsherds,
- pound,
- powder,
- pulverize,
- rags,
- rasher,
- raspings,
- reduce to powder,
- refuse,
- scoop,
- scourings,
- scrap,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- scrunch,
- scum,
- shards,
- shatter,
- shaving,
- shavings,
- shiver,
- shred,
- slack,
- slag,
- slice,
- sliver,
- slop,
- slops,
- smash,
- smithereen,
- snack,
- snatch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- splinter,
- squash,
- stitch,
- stubble,
- stump,
- sweepings,
- swill,
- tares,
- tatter,
- triturate,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- weeds