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sherd

British  
/ ʃɜːd /

noun

  1. a variant of shard

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

This sherd is unique among all those found at Jamestown, but it is essentially characteristic of North Devon work.

From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by Watkins, C. Malcolm