Definition of "potsherd" []

• A fragment of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological excavation. (noun)

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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."
• "a potsherd is a very unfit thing to run against a brasen wall, or to dash itself upon the rock of ages."
• "A scraper, for which the "potsherd" of Job was a substitute."