potshare

English

Noun

potshare (plural potshares)

1. Obsolete form of potsherd.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     They hew'd their helmes , and plates asunder brake ,
     As they had potshares bene ; for nought mote slake

References

• “potshare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• heapsort, hot spare