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Definition of Shard

1. Noun. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.

Definition of Shard

1. n. A plant; chard.

2. n. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

Definition of Shard

1. a fragment of broken pottery [n -S]

Medical Definition of Shard

1. A plant; chard. 1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. "The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board." (E. Arnold) 2. The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle." (Shak) 3. A gap in a fence. 4. A boundary; a division. Origin: AS. Sceard, properly a p. P. From the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. Schaard a fragment, G. Scharte a notch, Icel. Skar. See Shear, and cf. Sherd Alternative forms: sheard, and sherd. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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