Fragment or piece of a broken vessel.
(sherd) or shard. Fragment of a ceramic vessel also known as a potsherd.
a broken piece of a brittle artifact
a broken piece of pottery
A fragment of pottery (Cassells 1997:338).
a piece of broken prehistoric or historic pottery or glass. (Pronounced to rhyme with "herd.")
piece of broken pottery; sometimes spelled shard to reflect the British pronunciation.
A shortened version of ‘potsherd', also a variant of ‘shard'. A broken piece of ceramic material which has been found at an archeological site.
Or shard. A broken fragment of pottery.
In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used of fragments from broken stone and glass vessels as well.