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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

Poor little broken sherd, poor little fragment of a shattered life!

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)