sherd
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sherd (plural sherds)
- (dated or archaeology) Alternative form of shard
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- the thigh […] which all in sherds it drove
Usage notes edit
- In specialised [archaeological] usage, sherd is preferred over the more common form shard.
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- Shard and Sherd, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
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sherd
- Alternative form of scherd