potsherd
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of potsherd
1275–1325; Middle English; equivalent to pot pot 1 + sherd, variant of shard
Example Sentences
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On a mantel is a little Egyptian potsherd from the 12th century, showing a pair of leaping fish.
From New York Times • May 4, 2017
The “surprising chatter” of an ancient potsherd inscription is a “Hebrew tweet.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2014
He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade.
From Time Magazine Archive
For three years he served as his professor's pottery man, labeling, studying and endlessly discussing every potsherd from Albright's excavations.
From Time Magazine Archive
This information in hand, the linguists went back to the writing on the potsherd.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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