rind

noun

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

   “Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.”

   “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.”

3. (figuratively, rare, uncountable)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."”

   “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!”

   “April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This, when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, …”

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

verb

1. (transitive)To remove the rind from.