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Answer for the clue "Broken bit that's solid under surface of soil ", 5 letters:
shard

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sherd , Old English sceard "incision, cleft, gap; potshard, a fragment, broken piece," from Proto-Germanic *skardas (cognates: Middle Dutch schaerde "a fragment, a crack," Dutch schaard "a flaw, a fragment," German Scharte "a notch," Danish skaar "chink, ...

Usage examples of shard.

The sigh was enough to make Benj chuckle in spite of his worry, a reaction which was shard my Seumas McDevitt, who had just come down from the weather lab.

It smashed into a mass of glass shards and ooze, drugs mixing with the soil from the bonsai trees and with the tangled clock innards.

Slowly and with the utmost care, one of the mantids draws something out from under a pile of glass shards and ceiling panels, holds it up.

Saul swung again, shattered the bearded silhouette of his own reflection as well as a muntin, tapped out the clinging shards of glass, and groped in the darkness for the latch.

He outmatched her physically, but her emotional core could blast his own into shards.

They may have been afraid of some pistolero smashing it to obtain a sharp shard of glass to aid an escape, but in my case all I wanted to do was get some sleep, and that sonofabitch was burning out my eye-sockets.

Often as big as a small platform, they looked like rafts floating on top of the smaller shards of rock, the similarity heightened by the fact that the rock of the cliff-face was evidently planar in structure.

I watch, amazed, through the shards of plastiglass in an abandoned storage room, my fingers at my mouth, teeth to nails, reverting to primitivism as the young people overpower the robo-cop by the airlock.

Shards of brittle bone protruded from both thighs and both knees, where Lara Raith had exercised her marksmanship.

She lifted her head to watch as it penetrated her, stretching the mouth of her vagina so impossibly wide, the surrounding skin crimson and quivering, his ruddy, heavy-headed dick reaming into her over and over, each thrust and withdrawal sending icy-hot shards of bliss through her system.

I used magic to reinflate your lung and knit the bone shards back together.

Shards of memory remain: a flash of swords in a twilit alleyway in the remilitarized zone.

She had started sharding, and if she was like most sharded Cues, she would one day be back in Glendale, under his authority.

Wyeth has been forcibly sharded three times in two days, and is now on her way to that refuge town.

Abigail came back for four days, then she sharded as the foundry, coming out of it just today.