potsherd
101tigele — f ( an/ an) earthen vessel, crock, pot, potsherd; tile, brick; slabs for roofing …
102potsker — Cleveland Dialect List a potsherd …
103shard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. potsherd; fragment, piece, splinter. See part. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Residual matter: butt4, end, fragment, ort (often used in plural), scrap1, stub. See LEFTOVER …
104Eleazar ben-Yair — (1 century) Zealot leader on Masada. At some time during the Jewish revolt against the Romans that started in 66, the rock fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea was occupied by a group of Zealots led by Eleazar ben Yair. The flat top of… …
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105cask — mid 15c., from M.Fr. casque cask, helmet, from Sp. casco skull, cask, helmet, originally potsherd, from cascar to break up, from V.L. *quassicare, frequentative of L. quassare to shake, shatter (see QUASH (Cf. quash)). The sense evolution is… …
106cup — {{11}}cup (n.) O.E. cuppe, from L.L. cuppa cup (source of It. coppa, Sp. copa, O.Fr. coupe cup ), from L. cupa tub, cask, tun, barrel, from PIE *keup a hollow (Cf. Skt. kupah hollow, pit, cave, Gk. kype a …
107ostracism — (n.) 1580s, a method of 10 year banishment in ancient Athens, by which the citizens gathered and wrote the names of men they deemed dangerous to the state on potsherds or tiles, and a man whose name turned up often enough was sent away. From Gk.… …
108shard — (n.) O.E. sceard fragment, gap, from P.Gmc. *skardas, a pp. from the root of O.E. sceran to cut (see SHEAR (Cf. shear)). Cf. Du. schaard a flaw, a fragment, Ger. Scharte a notch, Dan. skaar chink, potsherd. Meaning fragment of …
109crocked — adj 1. American drunk. A word used, e.g., by college students, in the 1980s. It proba bly comes from the old use of crocks as containers for pickling or preserving in alcohol or, particularly in Canada, as con tainers for whiskey. Alternatively,… …
110excavate — To dig a hole into something or to hollow it out by digging or scooping. Or, to expose or uncover by digging, as in the pursuit of archaeology. The act or process of excavating is called excavation. Also see carve and potsherd …
