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noun

Shard n. A plant; chard. (Obs.)

Shard n. (Written also sheard, and sherd)

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."

(Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle."

A gap in a fence. (Obs.)

A boundary; a division. (Obs. & R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard— All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard— For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy People, ...

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... goes round the yard And the noisy streets stand high: The grassless ground is brown and hard, And the cinder pathways, lined with shard, Sees but a ...

— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls

... farther back in his seat. He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and ...

— The Stutterer • R.R. Merliss

... in a book, while Tony was engaged in scraping the pottery shard he had found. The boys watched him for a few minutes, then Scotty suggested, "How about ...

— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin

... from fold hath caught. Goes up great cry around: They set on, and the ditches filled with o'erturned garth and mound, While others cast the blazing brands on roof and battlement. Ilioneus with mighty stone, a shard from hillside rent, Lucetius felled, as fire in hand unto the gate he drew. Then Liger felled Emathion, for craft of spear he knew; 570 Asylas Corynaeus, by dint of skill in bowshaft's ways, Caeneus Ortygius ...

— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil

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