rind
n. 树皮, 壳, 外表 vt. 削皮, 剥壳
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tree bark
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A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
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The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
比喻 罕用 不可数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, …
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An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
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To remove the rind from.
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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.
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