单词 | potsherd |
释义 | potsherdn.adj. Now chiefly Archaeology. A. n. A fragment of a broken earthenware pot; a broken piece of pottery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > fragment or part of shardc1000 potsherda1325 pot-lid1404 potscarc1450 test1545 shred1616 crock1850 pan-sherd1851 tesson1858 pot-shell1865 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 171 Va quere breses en une teske [glossed] a pot-schoord [v.r. szherd]. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gi A laudable largesse I tell you for a lorde To prate for the patchynge of a pot sharde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job ii. 8 Iob..scraped of the etter off his sores with a potsherde. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z8v They hew'd their helmes, and plates asunder brake, As they had potshares bene. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlv. 9 Let the potsheard striue with the potsheards of the earth. View more context for this quotation 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxii. 20 He that would teach the foole, his labour's lost As he that glews a pottsherd, broke to dust. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Orange Tree Lay some Oister-Shells or Pot-shards at the Bottom of his Tubs, that the Water may the sooner drain away. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries vi. 157 All around their sides were thrown, for convenience..heaps of the broken pots, potsherds, (vulgar sherds,) and much rubbish containing refuse salt. 1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 64 Inscriptions were often written upon potsherds or trapezoidal fragments of vases. 1883 Proc. Soc. Biblical Archaeol. 5 84 The British Museum has lately acquired..a considerable number of ostraka or potsherds discovered at Elephantine, Thebes, and other places. 1907 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 20 Jan. 5/4 In the bottom of the pots,..place a potsherd, nearly covering the bottom of the pot, and on this put the drainage. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. v. 327 A potsherd from Old Ganja may contain an Albanian inscription. 1991 Antiquity 45 883/2 An abundance of potsherds ranging from Gallo-Roman to High Medieval date drew the Groupe Archéologique to the spot. B. adj. (attributive). Of, or relating to a potsherd or potsherds; suggestive of a potsherd, esp. in the quality of being broken or imperfect, or in allusion to Isaiah 45:9. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 1655 J. Phillips Satyr against Hypocrites 5 Straight then the Clerk began with potsheard voice To grope a tune. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 485 His Almightiness is above..our Pot-sheard strength, as his Infiniteness is above..our Purblind Understandings. 1974 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 2 Nov. 5/4 Potsherd ballots cast more than 2,400 years ago have been unearthed by archeologists. 1985 O. Imasogie Afr. Trad. Relig. (ed. 2) iii. 40 Unlike the ‘good’ man the wicked man is sent to the ‘potsherd heaven’ where he is to suffer eternally for his sins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1325 |
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