Thesaurus: shard

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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.
3. n. The hard wing case of a beetle.
4. n. A gap in a fence.
5. n. A boundary; a division.
6. n. a broken piece of a brittle artifact
7. A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden. 1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold. 2. (Zoöl.) The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Shak. 3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] Stanyhurst. 4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] Spenser.
8. A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.
9. n:100 n. a broken piece of a brittle artifact