Rind
//ɹaɪnd// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 tree bark
- 2 An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
- 3 the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) wordnet
- 4 A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
"Sweetest nut hath sourest rind."
- 5 The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" figuratively, rare, uncountable
""I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this.""
Verb
- 1 To remove the rind from. transitive
Example
More examples"The freshest watermelon is discovered by knocking on its rind."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). related to English rand.
Etymology 2
Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
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