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n. A piece of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig; a potsherd.

n. A fragment of a brittle substance, as of glass or metal.

n. A small piece or part: "shards of intense emotional relationships that once existed” ( Maggie Scarf).

n. Zoology A tough sheath or covering, such as a shell, scale, or plate.

n. Zoology The elytron or outer wing covering of a beetle.

n. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

n. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

n. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

n. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

v. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

v. To break (something) into shards.

v. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

n. A plant; chard.

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

n. The hard wing case of a beetle.

n. A gap in a fence.

n. A boundary; a division.

n. A piece or fragment, as of an earthen vessel; a potsherd; a fragment of any hard material.

n. A scale; a shell, as of an egg or a snail.

n. The wing-cover or elytrum of a beetle.

n. A notch.

n. A gap in a fence.

n. An opening in a wood.

n. A bourn or boundary; a division.

n. The leaves of the artichoke and some other vegetables whitened or blanched.

n. Dung; excrement; ordure.

n. a broken piece of a brittle artifact

"After the bombing the Israelis had indeed bulldozed everything so that I was able to find just one piece of evidence that beauty had flourished on this hillside, a shard from a piece of colorful tile, about the size of my hand."

piece   

potsherd   

potsherd   

plant    chard    boundary    division    potsherd   

Bernard    Brossard    Chard    Gerard    Gillard    Girard    Godard    Picard    Yard    ard   

sliver    splinter    chunk    fragment    débris    slab    flake    bit    pebble    droplet