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 sherd
 瓷器的碎片;碎片;翅鞘;外殼

 Shard n.  [Written also sheard, and sherd.]
 1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
 The precious dish
 Broke into shards of beauty on the board.   --E. Arnold.
 2. Zool. The hard wing case of a beetle.
    They are his shards, and he their beetle.   --Shak.
 3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.]
 4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.]
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 Sherd n. A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.
    The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.   --Chapman.
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 sherd
      n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, fragment]