Potsherd

Quick meaning: Potsherd is a noun meaning (often archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.

Meaning

(often archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.

Example Sentences

But this madde Amalecke, / Lyke to a Mamelek, / He regardeth lordes / No more than potshordes; […]

Speiser, who made excavations on Vao Island found prehistoric potsherds at a depth of 10 inches, and on the surface of the ground also.

Job took a potſherd to ſcrape himself, becauſe his hands were as full of boils as his body: This is the caſe of thy corrupt ſoul: not to be recovered but by Jeſus Chriſ, whoſe ſtrength was dried up like a potſherd, Pſal[ms] xxii. 15.

[W]ho can deny but that the rod of Gods mouth is indeed Virga virtutis, a rod of strength, an iron rod, able to deale with all humane reaſonings, as a hammer with a potſherd, which though to the hand of a man it may feele as hard as a rocke, yet is too brittle to endure the blow of an iron rod?

Word Forms

• potsherds
• potshard
• pot-sherd

Synonyms for potsherd

Depending on context, synonyms include shard, sherd.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pot-sherd, sherd, shard, shred, sheard, crock.

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