shard

Definitions


[ʃɑːd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges
(e.g: shards of glass flew in all directions)


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Origin:
Old English sceard ‘gap, notch, potsherd’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaarde ‘notch’, also to shear




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