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- noun Plural form of
potshard .
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Examples
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Not pot as the kind that usually turns up in museums as potshards.
Just because you're dead, that doesn't mean you can't still mellow out 2009
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Not pot as the kind that usually turns up in museums as potshards.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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"Hypothetically," said Palin to the head librarian of Wasilla, "Hypothetically speaking, if we burned down the library and cut you to death with potshards, would that be okay?"
"Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..." Ann Althouse 2008
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But a lingering bout of dysentery, and the heavy bags of potshards slung over his shoulder, made him postpone the visit for another time.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Racks were tossed over on the floor, shelves broken, potshards everywhere.
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He gazed back at his own life, at the history of the realm, and picked at facts like potshards, trying to piece them together.
Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
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Romans, many earlier races successively made on this mountain promontory overlooking the Rhône delta their fortified home: for here, as on scores of other defensible heights throughout Provence, the merest scratching of the soil brings to light flints and potshards which tell of varied human occupancy in very far back times.
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881
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The Hercules statue was found in the pool, amidst potshards and broken glass vessels.
FOXNews.com 2011
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The potshards at Homolovi are part of the trail that will lead him back to his people and usher in a happier time.
azcentral.com | news Casey Newton 2010
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He has no idea how to protect the potshards and petroglyphs, the grinding stones and hand tools, scattered among the park's 340 archaeological sites.
azcentral.com | news Casey Newton 2010
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