- a variant of shard
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sherd
(shûrd),USA pronunciation n.
- shard.
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sherd /ʃɜːd/ n
shard /ʃɑrd/USA pronunciation also sherd /ʃɜrd/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023- Zoologya fragment or piece that is broken off, esp. a piece of earthenware.
shard
(shärd),USA pronunciation n.
- Zoologya fragment, esp. of broken earthenware.
- [Zool.]
- a scale.
- a shell, as of an egg or snail.
- Insects[Entomol.]an elytron of a beetle.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English sceard; cognate with Low German, Dutch schaard; akin to shear
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shard /ʃɑːd/, sherd n
- a broken piece or fragment of a brittle substance, esp of pottery
- a tough sheath, scale, or shell, esp the elytra of a beetle
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