But this madde Amalecke, / Lyke to a Mamelek, / He regardeth lordes / No more than potshordes; […]
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Potsherd
//ˈpɒt.ʃɜːd//
Synonyms for "potsherd" (2 found)
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31 translations across 24 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- potskerf noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄστρακον noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Bulgarian
1 entries- чиреп noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Catalan
1 entries- padellàs noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Danish
1 entries- potteskår noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Dutch
1 entries- potscherf noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Finnish
1 entries- ruukunsirpale noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Galician
1 entries- testo noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
German
3 entries- Scherbe noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- Tonscherbe noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- Topfscherbe noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Ingrian
1 entries- pataluhka noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Italian
1 entries- coccio noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Latin
1 entries- testa noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Macedonian
3 entries- откршок noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- цреп noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- црепче noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Māori
1 entries- maramara rīhi noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Navajo
1 entries- kitsʼiil noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- potteskår noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Portuguese
1 entries- caco noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Spanish
2 entries- casco noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- tiesto noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Swahili
1 entries- gae noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Swedish
1 entries- krukskärva noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Tamil
2 entries- ஓடு noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- சில் noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Telugu
1 entries- చిల్లపెంకు noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Yiddish
1 entries- שאַרבן noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Yoruba
2 entries- àpádìdì noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
- àpáàdì noun (piece of ceramic from pottery)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
[W]ho can deny but that the rod of Gods mouth is indeed Virga virtutis, a rod of strength, an iron rod, able to deale with all humane reaſonings, as a hammer with a potſherd, which though to the hand of a man it may feele as hard as a rocke, yet is too brittle to endure the blow of an iron rod?
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Job took a potſherd to ſcrape himself, becauſe his hands were as full of boils as his body: This is the caſe of thy corrupt ſoul: not to be recovered but by Jeſus Chriſ, whoſe ſtrength was dried up like a potſherd, Pſal[ms] xxii. 15.
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[I]n the case of pottery, it [epigraphy] is usually taken to include graffiti scratched with a sharp point, and even painted inscriptions which are made before firing as part of the design of a vase, but not written documents (ostraka), in which pot-sherds are merely used as a material to write on instead of papyrus.
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