sherds

noun

1. 1

   A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

2. 2

   (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

3. 3

   A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

4. 4

   An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

5. 5

   A component of a sharded distributed database.

6. 6

   (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.