potshare
English
Noun
potshare (plural potshares)
- Obsolete form of potsherd.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- They hew'd their helmes , and plates asunder brake ,
As they had potshares bene ; for nought mote slake
References
- “potshare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.