† tile-sherdn.
Obsolete or dialect.
A broken piece or fragment of tile.
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tile-sherd1527
1527 Luton Trin. Guild (1906) 190 For careeg' of a loode of tyle sherdis to vndre pyn wtall.
1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 147 b A loode of Tyle sherdes ffor the levelyng vppe of the vnderpynnyng of the said wharffe.
1616 A. Champney Treat. Vocation Bishops To Rdr. Little children that build Castles of Tile~shards.
1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 369 Some prisoners were employed in beating or pounding tile~sherds for the bricklayers.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tile~sherd,..a fragment of a tile, as potsherd of a pot.
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