shard.

A piece broken from a brittle object, especially glass or pottery.

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Words that belong together

• glass shard
• pottery shard

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Shards of blue pottery lay among the roots.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Singular shard; plural shards. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.