rind

/ɹaɪnd/

rind noun: tree bark.

Noun (1)

rind (plural rinds)

Tree bark.
A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
- cheese rind; lemon rind; lime rind
- Make sure you don't leave any of the rind on those lemons.
(figuratively, rare, uncountable, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
- "I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218
- 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!1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262

Verb

rind (third-person singular simple present rinds, present participle rinding, simple past and past participle rinded)

(transitive) To remove the rind from.

Noun (2)

rind (plural rinds)

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

rind meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

rind in Urdu

چھال, چھلکا, پپڑی, اوپری تہہ, چھلکا اتارنا

rind in Malayalam

മരപ്പട്ട, തൊലി, പൊരിച്ചത്, പട്ട, തൊണ്ട്

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rind in Kannada: ತೊಗಟೆ, ತೋಟೆ, ಹಕ್ಕಳೆ, ಹಡಸು ಪದರ
rind in Odia: ବକଳ bakaḷa, କୋଷ koṣa

Examples of rind in a sentence

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634...
Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’.1940, Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941, published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's...

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Forms of rind

Noun
plural	rinds
alternative form	rynd
alternative form	rine
Verb
third-person singular present	rinds
present participle	rinding
past participle	rinded
past	rinded

Plural of rind: rinds

Origin of rind

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.

Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.

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Questions about rind

What does rind mean?: Rind means tree bark.
What is rind in Tamil?: Rind in Tamil is தோலி. See Rind meaning in Tamil.
How do you use rind in a sentence?: Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
What part of speech is rind?: Rind can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce rind?: Rind is pronounced /ɹaɪnd/.
What is the plural of rind?: The plural of rind is rinds.

Words near rind in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: rind (page history and authors); rind (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rind (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rind (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rind (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rind (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); କୋଷ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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