Obs. or dial. [f. TILE sb.1 + SHERD, SHARD; cf. potsherd.] A broken piece or fragment of tile.
1527. Luton Trin. Guild (1906), 190. For careeg’ of a loode or tyle sherdis to vndre pyn wtall.
1533. MS. Rawl. D., 776, lf. 147 b. A loode of Tyle sherdes ffor the levelyng vppe of the vnderpynnyng of the said wharffe.
1616. Champney, Voc. Bps., To Rdr. Little children that build Castles of Tile-shards.
1777. Howard, Prisons Eng. (1780), 369. Some prisoners were employed in beating or pounding tile-sherds for the bricklayers.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Tile-sherd,… a fragment of a tile, as potsherd of a pot.
