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Definition of Potshard
1. n. A potsherd.
Definition of Potshard
1. potsherd [n -S] - See also: potsherd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potshard
Literary usage of Potshard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"A very common word among bricklayers. So put shard, a piece of broken pot, occurs
several times in Scripture. Job took a potshard to scrape himself withall. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... As greedy T—— when in the sounding mould He finds a shining potshard tip'd
with gold ; For never syren tempts the pleased rares, As these the eye of ..."
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