Meaning & use
sherd
A broken fragment of pottery or glass, especially one found at an archaeological site.
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Archaeologists carefully labeled every sherd of pottery found in the ancient trench.
A single painted sherd revealed the settlement had once traded with distant regions.
A note on using this word
Sherd is the preferred spelling in archaeology specifically for pottery fragments, while 'shard' is the general word for broken pieces of any brittle material.
Words with a similar meaning
shardfragment
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