Crossword-Solution: POTSHERD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Potsherd | n. | A piece or fragment of a broken pot. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “POTSHERD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Piece of earthen vessel | 1 answer |
| EGYPTIAN accounts, material used for | 2 answers |
| EGYPTIAN private letters, material used for | 2 answers |
| EGYPTIAN tax receipt, material used as | 2 answers |
| Earthenware fragment | 2 answers |
| sherd | 2 answers |
| Archaeological fragment | 3 answers |
| Dig find | 5 answers |
| Shard. | 8 answers |
| Sliver | 14 answers |
| Hunk | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POTSHERD (5)
Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone Or heavy potsherd press them from above; This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.
Thy stone god is broken asunder; thy potsherd god shattered; thy brazen god rusteth; thy gold or silver god is melted down.
The ashes of ancient fires were scattered about, and in cleaning them off his new-found hearth the man discovered a potsherd, apparently of a native olla or water-jar, and a chipped fragment of flint, too small to indicate whether it had formed part of an Indian arrowhead or had dropped from an old flintlock musket.
The material on _one_ only of the three hundred pieces of potsherd had melted, and it was taken out to cool.
But suppose one day someone were to find a potsherd here from early Knossos, or a fragment of glass from Pepi’s Egypt.” The place had stirred up his imagination.
Quotes with POTSHERD (1)
The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in his late, great poem, "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the comfort of the Resurrection": 'In a flash, at a trumpet crash, / I am all at once what Christ is, / since he was what I am and / This jack, joke, poor potsherd, / patch matchwood, immortal diamond, / Is immortal diamond.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1970–2013).