sherds's Usage Examples:

The fill of the ditch was mostly boulder clay wash, with a few small brick sherds.

The sherds include amphoras, jars, bowls and lids.

amphora sherds, both domestic and imported.

Eighteenth century redware sherds and a fragment of Spanish amphora have been recovered from the foreshore in this area.

Sherds of Roman pottery were recovered from most contexts but all the sherds were much abraded and likely to be residual.

The only Aegean objects yet found (1910) in or near Ionia are some sherds of the very latest Minoan age at Miletus.

This cavity was filled with rubbish, sherds, 'c., the latest of which was found to date as far back as the beginning of the Middle Minoan age, and the later work of 1908 only proved (by means of a small shaft sunk through the debris) that the rock floor was 52 ft.

thick, and contains stone implements and sherds of handmade and hand-polished vessels, showing a progressive development in technique from bottom to top. This Cnossian stratum seems to be throughout earlier than the lowest layer at Hissarlik.

Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than Boo Aegean vases in 1889.

abraded sherds of pottery were found to have adhered to the slag.

Synonyms:

piece, potsherd, shard, fragment,

Antonyms:

break, white, black, disjoin, disassemble,