Lexicographical Neighbors of Potshare
Literary usage of Potshare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... is wanting," saith Bernard, " to him that is born " in sin, of a potshare body
and barren mind ?" for, according to the same father, ..."
2. On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the by Richard Chenevix Trench (1866)
"... a ' sherd,' as a pot-' sherd,' (also ' potshare,' Spenser,) that which is
broken off and thus divided from the vessel; and these which I have adduced by ..."
3. A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary: Of Obsolete and Uncommon Words by William Toone (1834)
"potshare and POTSHERD, pieces of broken tiles or pots, from share, to break or
divide. They hew'd their helmes, and plates asunder brake, As they had put ..."
4. A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words by William Toone (1832)
"He plucked out of his potenter, And longer wold not dwell, Be plucked out a pretty
mantle. OB THK Bov AND THE MANTI.B. potshare and POTSHERD, ..."
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