Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fragment of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological excavation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece or fragment of an earthenware pot; any broken fragment or piece of earthenware.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
piece ofceramic frompottery , often found on anarchaeological site .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shard of pottery
Etymologies
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Examples
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A potsherd is a shard of pottery with archaelogical value, and so I've settled on that word to title what will be, I hope, an occasional series of posts digging worthwhile bits and pieces out of the archives of weblogs that I read.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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A potsherd is a shard of pottery with archaelogical value, and so I've settled on that word to title what will be, I hope, an occasional series of posts digging worthwhile bits and pieces out of the archives of weblogs that I read.
Potsherds 2004
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a potsherd is a very unfit thing to run against a brasen wall, or to dash itself upon the rock of ages.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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A scraper, for which the "potsherd" of Job was a substitute.
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Smash a pot, write on a potsherd Greek=ostracon the name of a politician you wish to see resign and leave the country, place in ballot box.
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Rider Haggard faked up a potsherd with Greek and Latin inscriptions and included photos with one of his stories.
There and Back Again Tom Shippey 2012
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A Mexican pre-Hispanic potsherd stands next to Manuel Reyes 'representation of a three-footed vessel.
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Second, it seems to me fairly odd that someone would write moral laws on a potsherd.
Linguistics and the Dating of Texts James F. McGrath 2010
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For example, he recently found a potsherd with a painted design, and through extrapolation has created an entire, accurately crafted three-footed vessel.
Manuel Reyes: sculptor, painter and renaissance man from Oaxaca's Mixteca Alta 2008
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As discussed in chapter 2, the bountiful potsherd evidence thus far unearthed and variously named Triangular Incised Ware (TIW) and Tana ware were in all likelihood introduced and produced by proto-Northeast Coastal Bantu speakers and their descendants when they entered central-east Tanzania.
wackyvorlon commented on the word potsherd
It seems most pronounce this word with an 'a' sound for the 'e', though my latin prof used the 'e' sound.
September 24, 2008