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Etymology 1Edit

From Old English rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rindǭ. Cognate with German Rinde.


rind (plural rinds)

  1. tree bark
  2. A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
    • Shakespeare
      Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
    • Milton
  3. (figuratively, uncountable, rare, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
    • 1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
      Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
    • 1940, Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941, published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p. 99:
    • 2010, David Stubbs, Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010, O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p. 12:
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rind (third-person singular simple present rinds, present participle rinding, simple past and past participle rinded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the rind from.

Etymology 2Edit

Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.

Alternative formsEdit


rind (plural rinds)

  1. An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill




From Germanic


rind (??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

  1. breast


This noun needs an inflection-table template.



rind (comparative rindtir, superlative rindtirîn)

  1. good
  2. beautiful

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Old High GermanEdit


Proto-Germanic *hrinþaz, whence also Old English hrīþer


rind ?

  1. cattle