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   rind

   /rīnd/

   noun

   • 1. the tough outer skin of certain fruit, especially citrus fruit: "decorate with fine shreds of orange rind"
   • ▪ the hard outer edge of cheese or bacon, usually removed before eating: "curls of bacon rind were left on his plate"
   • ▪ the bark of a tree or plant: "with the liberal use of birch rind and creosote splits we soon had fires going"
   • ▪ the hard outer layer of parts of a fungus.
   • ▪ the skin or blubber of a whale: "Jeffries was flensing the rind free"

   verb

   • 1. strip the bark from (a tree): "when the meat ran out they had to rind trees and chew the inner bark for nourishment"

   Word Origin Old Englishrind(e) ‘bark of a tree’; related to Dutch run and German Rinde, of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. rinded adjective
   • 2. rindless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 5

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