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A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

The hard wing case of a beetle.

A gap in a fence.

A boundary; a division.

A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

The hard wing case of a beetle.

A gap in a fence.

A boundary; a division.

A piece of fragment of brittle material, as earthenware; a wing cover, as of a beetle. Also, sherd.

A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel or of any brittle substance; a potsherd; a fragment; "Shards, flints, and pebbles."-Shak.; "Dashed your cities into shards."-Tennyson; the shell of an egg or of a snail: the wing-case of a beetle; "They are his shards, and he their beetle."-Shak.: the leaves of the artichoke and some other vegetables whitened or blanched; "Shards or mallows for the pot."-Dryden.

n. [Anglo Saxon] A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel or of a like brittle substance:-the hard wing-case of a beetle; -the shell of an egg or snail.