shirred, sherd

Shirred or shirred is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) of "shirr", meaning, of eggs, to bake in a dish--
Grandmother used to make shirred eggs in a custard cup, with a piece of bread stuffed into it.

Shirred is also then past tense of "shirr", meaning, in sewing, to gather up on three or more threads--
The bottom of the blouse is shirred at the waist.

Sherd or sherd ( rhymes with shirred ) means a fragment, most commonly of broken pottery--
He's very excited about the pot sherd he found; the site may turn out to be full of artifacts.
He wants an expert to look at that sherd; it may be ancient.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She made a little cloth bag, shirred at the top, for each precious sherd."

Note--"shard" means any piece of broken glass, shell, or of some other substance that leaves sharp fragments when broken--
He stepped on a shard of broken glass, and needed some stitches.