1. (n.) A plant; chard.

2. (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

3. (n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.

4. (n.) A gap in a fence.

5. (n.) A boundary; a division.

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