Sceard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sceard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es ; Related words: Nares' Glossary.

Definitions

1 sceard

n. A shard, sherd, pot-sherd, tile :--Scearda testarum, Germ. 398, 257. [Gower uses sherd for the scale of a dragon, ' a dragon whose scherdes schinen as the sonne,' iii. 68, 5: and in Shakspere shard; denotes a beetle's hard wing-case, M. H. Ger. scharte a sherd : Ger. scharte.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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