sceard

sceard
adj 1. notched, hacked, having gaps or rifts; 2. cut, gashed, mutilated; 3. deprived, bereft of w.g.
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n (-es/-) a shard, sherd, potsherd, tile; [Gower used sherd for the scale of a dragon; Shakespeare's shard denotes a beetle's hard-wing case]; [Ger scharte]
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n (-es/-) inscision, cleft, gap, notch; [Ger scharte]

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