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.

Anagrams

heapsort, hot spare

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