Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sherd \Sherd\, n.
   A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd.
   See {Shard}.

         The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.
                                                  --Chapman.

Source : WordNet®

sherd
     n : a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: {shard}, {fragment}]