Difference between Sherd and Shard

Sherd

Part of speech: noun

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

Shard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.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.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.To break (something) into shards.To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.