Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Borne along by shards or scaly wing-covers.
- [Some take the word here to be shard-born, ‘produced in shard or dung.’]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.
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Examples
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1200: The shard-borne Beetle, with his drowsie hums,
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