Shard

n.	1.	A plant; chard.
	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.
	4.	A boundary; a division.

Noun

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shard - a broken piece of a brittle artifact Synonyms: sherd, fragment

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