Definitions for shard

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Spelling: [shahrd]
IPA: /ʃɑrd/

Shard is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in shard (adhrs).

Definitions for shard

noun

  1. a fragment, especially of broken earthenware.
  2. Zoology. a scale. a shell, as of an egg or snail.
  3. Entomology. an elytron of a beetle.

Origin of shard

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceard; cognate with Low German, Dutch schaard; akin to shear

Examples for shard

And, faster and faster still, they crashed into the shard of steel.

shard glass from the historic church was recently donated to the museum, which is scheduled to open in 2015.

One person who wasn't impressed by Prince Andrew's abseil down the shard: writer Grace Dent.

The Brooklyn Bridge, London's shard, Notre Dame—each structure is an expedition waiting to happen.

Well, look at the figures and lettering on the shard; you can see those.

On the floor under where it should have been I caught the flash of light from a shard of glass.

Here's Prince Andrew abseiling down the shard in London earlier this week.

She turned away from the audience to smash a glass goblet, raising a shard to her throat.

Then, as he examined them, he saw that the shard and the four films had been changed.

He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and toyed with it.

Word Value for shard
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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