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potshare

potshare is the obsolete form of potsherd.

Meaning of potsherd

Noun

potsherd (plural potsherds)

  1. (often) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.
    • But this madde Amalecke, / Lyke to a Mamelek, / He regardeth lordes / No more than potshordes; […]a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth a Lytell Boke, whiche hath to Name Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […]...
    Synonyms:
    shard, sherd

Forms of potshare

pluralpotshares

Questions about potshare

What is potshare the obsolete form of?
Potshare is the obsolete form of potsherd.

Words near potshare in the dictionary

  1. Potsdammers
  2. potsful
  3. Potshangbam
  4. potshard
  5. potshards
  6. potshare
  7. potshares
  8. potshaw
  9. potshaws
  10. potsherd
  11. potsherds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potshare (page history and authors); potsherd (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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