rind

Meaning

1. tree bark
2. A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
3. The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"

peel

skin

outer skin

outer layer

outer covering

animal skin

glace

hard outer covering

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪnd/

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.