a gap or notch ; this knife has a great shard. Glouc.
·noun A plant; chard. II. Shard ·noun A gap in a fence. III. Shard ·noun A boundary; a division. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. ...
a piece of a tile. Norf. and Suff. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
a fragment of a tile. Norf. ...