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Rind

//ɹaɪnd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    tree bark
  2. 2
    An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
  3. 3
    the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) wordnet
  4. 4
    A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc

    "Sweetest nut hath sourest rind."

  5. 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. 1
    To remove the rind from. transitive

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

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 3

Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.

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