SHARD


Meaning of SHARD in English

n.1 a broken piece of pottery or glass etc.

2 POTSHERD.

3 a fragment of volcanic rock.

4 the wing-case of a beetle.

Etymology: OE sceard: sense 3 f. shard-borne (Shakesp.) born in a shard (dial., cow-dung), wrongly taken as 'borne on shards'

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.