rind

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Tree bark.
2. noun A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.

   cheese rind; lemon rind; lime rind

3. noun The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
4. verb To remove the rind from.
5. noun An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.

Similar words

skin birchbark crust pastry peel integument scab cortex bark treebark

Often followed by

of and is or in the from that

Word family

rinded rinds