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n. A fragment of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological excavation.

n. A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.

n. A piece or fragment of a broken pot.

n. A piece or fragment of an earthenware pot; any broken fragment or piece of earthenware.

n. a shard of pottery

"A potsherd is a shard of pottery with archaelogical value, and so I've settled on that word to title what will be, I hope, an occasional series of posts digging worthwhile bits and pieces out of the archives of weblogs that I read."

shard    fragment    sherd   

fragment   

forty-yard    hundred-yard    shot-up    irregularly-shaped    chear    plodder    niter    brick dust    bottle glass    short-distance