- a variation of shard.
sherd
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A pottery sherd bearing Smenkhkara’s name, found by Hawass’s team at a city called the “Dazzling Aten” near the Valley of the Kings, supports this view.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022
“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2022
Spirals — carved into the Westray Stone, a magnificent tomb relic — crop up on a ceramic sherd in a newly ploughed field.
From Nature • Sep. 15, 2019
Garner got out of his car and took no more than a few steps before he saw an earth-colored pottery sherd.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016
The sherd lay beneath a foot-deep deposit that included Dutch majolica, Italian sgraffito ware, and tobacco pipes, all dating in form or decoration prior to 1650.
From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by Watkins, C. Malcolm
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