'Shard' definitions:

Definition of 'shard'

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noun
A broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, sherd, fragment]

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]

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